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On the TikTok debacle this week:
Jan. 19th, 2025 08:13 pmI don't wanna be like, "hey, does it seem to anyone else like a whole lot of people who probably didn't vote for Kamala Harris because they didn't like the Biden Administation's policy on Gaza just threw their principles into the trash over an app?" But yeah.
Oh well. I guess we'll see what happens when Trump has 50% ownership, and it basically becomes a state-run propaganda firehose like Xitter. (Instead of, you know, the propaganda firehose it already is currently.)
I understand what TikTok means to people. I haven't ever really stopped mourning 00s-era Livejournal, after all. But at the end of the day, it's an app. I have seen so many of those come and go over the years. I was there for Geocities, Myspace, Livejournal, and Vine. And it feels like people care more for an app than they ever cared for civil rights, safe schools, or the safety and rights of immigrants, PoC and LGBTIQ people, or even Palestinian lives. And now those people think of Trump as their savior. But let's see what they think of him a year from now.
All sorts of things are starting to come out about the executive orders about day one roundups of immigrants and an executive order essentially denying the existence of Transpeople. But hey, people can access TikTok again!
As for me: for the most part I'm going back to Web 1.0 and Mastodon, like I threatened to do weeks ago.
It boils down to this: stuff like this will inevitably occur with any "Web 2.0" social media platform, or any site or app that is not owned and operated and controlled by its userbase. Don't like it? Then seize the means of production.
Oh well. I guess we'll see what happens when Trump has 50% ownership, and it basically becomes a state-run propaganda firehose like Xitter. (Instead of, you know, the propaganda firehose it already is currently.)
I understand what TikTok means to people. I haven't ever really stopped mourning 00s-era Livejournal, after all. But at the end of the day, it's an app. I have seen so many of those come and go over the years. I was there for Geocities, Myspace, Livejournal, and Vine. And it feels like people care more for an app than they ever cared for civil rights, safe schools, or the safety and rights of immigrants, PoC and LGBTIQ people, or even Palestinian lives. And now those people think of Trump as their savior. But let's see what they think of him a year from now.
All sorts of things are starting to come out about the executive orders about day one roundups of immigrants and an executive order essentially denying the existence of Transpeople. But hey, people can access TikTok again!
As for me: for the most part I'm going back to Web 1.0 and Mastodon, like I threatened to do weeks ago.
It boils down to this: stuff like this will inevitably occur with any "Web 2.0" social media platform, or any site or app that is not owned and operated and controlled by its userbase. Don't like it? Then seize the means of production.
