Influencers make money from the platform and in most peoples’ capitalism-riddled brain, “the government is ripping up your paycheck” is more alarming than “the government is silencing its people”.
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devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 months ago
Oh no, won’t somebody think of the influencers
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
i’d be more worried about the citizen journalism exposing much of what is happening on the ground that governments don’t want you to see (aka gaza, for example)
Bohurt@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’d be more worried if there wasn’t any other platforms where media can be posted to broader audience
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
There is no shortage of platforms that allow for that. Lemmy, reddit, blue sky, etc. it is not hard to adapt
Ashiette@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yet TikTok is where the people are. Lemmy is Mostly empty :)
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
People will move around. There’ll always be a replacement
joel_feila@lemmy.world 2 months ago
yeah but for every bad things social media uncovers we have a longer list of bad things it causes. It helps uncover gaza but look at the lists of ethnic cleansing and genocides facebook helped.