Good. Fuck TikTok.
TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture
Submitted 2 weeks ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/tiktok-uninstalls-are-up-150percent-following-us-joint-venture.html
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IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
This is now a right wing propaganda machine. I deleted awhile ago.
Several social media posts pointed to language in the new policy that describes the types of data TikTok may collect, including sensitive information such as “your racial or ethnic origin” as well as “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information.”
Despite the social media uproar, that language does not appear to be new. An archived version of the policy from August 2024 includes the same provisions.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
It was always a rightwing propoganda machine, it helped Trumo get elected.
Now its 50% Blue Fascist in addition to the Red Fascist.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel old every time I share that I’ve never installed TikTok and don’t have an account.
In many ways, I feel a bit like I am still forced to use the app when interacting with the rest of social media and society. Because the damn format, and culture, and way of thinking and producing videos has seeped so deep into all aspects of our lives.
The whole mode of consuming media in an algorithmic flipbook like that weirds me out. I don’t understand how anyone can enjoy being enticed to watch videos in the way TikTok promotes.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
I don’t feel old.
I just feel correct and justified in never installing a foreign weapon which exposes every contact, photo, nearby device, and message to an evil dictatorship that wants us all dead (up to 2 dictatorships now).
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I strayed away from tiktok and before that facebook, instagram, Twitter. Social media that encourages many users to forgo their privacy and share their faces and voices just always seemed like red flags.
Broken@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I feel you on that. Even not being on xyz social trend of the day you still get exposed to the mentality of it by the people that are. To some extent that’s fine, but it can get old really quickly.
I don’t want to doom scroll all day and night. I don’t want to socialize on media and follow people or have followers. Random people are not my entertainment. I don’t need my phone in my hand 24/7.
My take is that I will live my life by my culture. If people see me be me and follow my example, great. If people think I’m a weirdo, oh well I’ll just go do my own thing.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Tiktok was lit until late 2020, when they really started clamping down on subversive content at the behest of the US.
nexguy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We will see 100% of tiktok users uninstall. Even 200%, 300% 400% up to 500% and more including 600%. Percents like no one has seen.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Breaking News: TikTok user counts plummet into negative numbers!
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Not sure if this is parody-ing a certain orangie’s math fail, or genuinely confused.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I find it funny that millions of people had no problem with an evil foreign government like the CCP, that’s well known for collecting data for military purposes and spending mind boggling amounts on propaganda campaigns, controlling the app, but now draw the line at some Silicon Valley billionaire doing essentially the same thing.
I never liked the short content format so I never had an interest downloading TikTok, but I knew that I would never, ever download it when I learned that this Chinese app is actually banned in China. They a have a separate clone of this app that’s exclusive to China that uses a different algorithm that promotes positive and educational content. The fact that billions of people use this shitty weaponized piece of Chinese spyware is depressing, especially when the Fediverse exists.
Rooster326@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Well for starters - The United States government is kicking in doors around my area right now.
The CCP would have to travel many thousand miles to kick in my door.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a false sense of security. The CCP doesn’t need to kick down your door to weaponize your data. It should be common sense to not trust an authoritarian regime.
epicthundercat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Respectfully, the CCP has been less of a direct threat than the US government as of late and most dont trust the government so why would they trust the propaganda? This isnt to say the CCP isnt a problem but are they as much of a direct threat to American citizens then ICE and such?.. Atm, no.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s such a nonsensical take. Because you don’t trust the US government, you’re go to thought is to hand over your data to an opaque authoritarian regime like the CCP? What kind of a bullshit false dichotomy is that? Fuck that, my data is my data. It doesn’t belong to any government, corporation, or anybody who isn’t me or someone that I explicitly give consent to use my data. That’s the principled take.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
and most dont trust the government so why would they trust the propaganda?
because visually it’s not coming from the government but “independent content creators”. and regardless of who says it, people will trust propaganda that says things they want to hear, then over time, start trusting those who say that
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Based on recent evidence, maybe the CCP > US Government.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
that does not make them good, but fortunately we don’t have to accept either, right?
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People on here are unfortunately very ignorant on the doings of the CCP. People here don’t realize that the US hasn’t lapsed China in tyranny, they’re merely catching up. The CCP has mastered authoritarianism to the point where they’re in a league of their own.
Regardless, it doesn’t matter either way because it’s not a competition. If we walk down the path choosing between two evils, we’ll quickly find ourselves racing to the bottom, and we all lose. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be that way, we can simply reject tyranny in its entirety regardless of country, ideology, or regime.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
evil forefinger government
Okay well first that typo is staying, second I used to be minorly involved in politics (by which I mean fundraising for a homeless shelter feels and smells a lot like politics even if your goals are more altruistic) and I learned one valuable thing. The right thing morally and the right thing politically are rarely the same, and when it looks like they are you should investigate closer and reevaluate because you’re probably missing something important. That’s why government is almost always evil.
neblem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile joinloops.org and joinpeertube.org keep getting better and better
Hopefully more creators will take notice and at least crosspost their content on better platforms too.
Butterphinger@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think it might be because you are using an embedded browser window in whatever lemmy app you are using. When I go in through firefox mobile it looks fine.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
What browser are you using? It works fine for me on Android Firefox. Even with JavaScript disabled.
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Now you can see 30 of the same reposted tiktok spam blasting low quality live music instead of 10!
Oh well I guess it doesn’t matter anyway because if you try to update the app anyway it just downloads an invalid APK lol
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
for the one peertube server i wanted to follow something on, i couldnt figure out how to point the peertube ios app to an arbitrary peertube server. seems not in the fediverse spirit
neblem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The web instances work pretty well, that’s a shame the iOS app didn’t work for you. I’m only a consumer not a producer of video content so I interact with a fedi microblogging platform instead of having an account on a peertube platform itself. The Android app seemed okay but following users with RSS and interacting via my microblogging account, as well as directly checking my favorite platforms’ sites occasionally for serendipity seems to work the best for me.
I’m sure with the fundraising blitz the apps will get better too this year.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Vine used to be so fun and simple.
That was fucking eons ago.
Its replacement has so many issues on many levels.
Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That because Vine was designed to be fun and simple. Users only had 7 seconds to make a memorable video, and so people got really creative with it. You can’t possibly convey anything of value in such a short duration, so people just the platform for fun.
HexaBack@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
something something limitations encourage creativity
a tale as old as time
switcheroo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
More enshitification. Whatever the current “administration” touches turns to shit, dies, and rots.
Boycott everything you can that’s from the US. Even if you are IN the fucking US. Nazis are not your friends (and if they are, fuck you, you’re a Nazi too).
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
the only socially acceptable interaction with a nazi, is punching the nazi.
jaennaet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Hey now that’s not fair.
Shooting Nazis is also acceptable
willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Whatever the
current “administration”billionaires touchesturns to shit, dies, and rots.FTFY
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
[deleted]HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Let them form their video version while we keep our text and I’ll have one less shit to flip
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
They use social media in hopes of becoming influencers themselves to get the bag, or follow big influencers because they have a huge emotional attachment to them.
I don’t think fediverse is going to have appeal because they aren’t in it just to have a site to have conversations or see material.
The very foundation of it having to be where the most visible and popular people are is the whole draw of social media for them. Not pseudoanonynous usernames posting comments.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
the fediverse has twitter instagram and tiktok analogues, which could theoretically offer these things (which i think is a normie problem, not just a young people problem)
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
My siblings were debating issues with it and about how willing they were to just deal with it.
I’m just shocked at how addicted everyone is to it that it could probably say “Trump is watching all users’ front cameras while the app is open” and kids would still be like "hmmm what are the odds he watches me though?
But everybody’s a zombie.
I mean I downloaded it, back really early, to take a peek. After 15 minutes, I decided I hated the short format, and peaced out.
It seems to largely be a generational thing. Millennials are (in my perception) mostly on it just to make money, zoomers just want that crack IV drip.
Obviously this is just a trend, and there are counter examples everywhere, but that seems to be more true than not. At least from the outside looking in.
And given it’s totally obnoxious censorship rules, now I have to deal with hearing about people getting “unalived”, or “adult fun time”, and “p 3 dee oh” from creators that multistream. Even without being there, I’m forced to experience the cancer secondhand.
That’s my main problem with it. None of the other problems affect me directly much since I’ve always avoided it, but that is smeared all over my shit.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Should be higher, save your selves
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Facebook, Insta, YouTube. I know they’re fun and entertaining. But they’re all destroying your mental health. I promise you’ll be happier if you pull the plug on all of them. Delete your account. Touch grass. Volunteer, talk to your neighbors, start a social club.
ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Besides Lemmy, I left everything else in 2014. Growing up with it all and now seeing the other side…… I’m worried about people.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You can’t uninstall that which was never installed.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right? Didn’t want Chinese propaganda or Chud propaganda. Ezpz
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I continue to argue that it was nothing but a Psyop campaign to test how to manipulate the American public by the chinese government.
Just look at all those insane “trends” it got people to do, like Kicking in strangers front doors, assaulting people, destroying public property, etc etc.
It turned violent sociopathy into an upvoteable activity.
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Lmao amount of ppl defending TikTok in the comment is funny af
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Not surprising, since you’d need tp be willfully ignorant to have used tiktok when it first came out with all the privacy concerns even back then with the app doing weird things.
And those who use it despite that are pretty addicted to the content on it. They in the same category as those that continue to use twitter.
Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.
Now that ownership has changed, there’s an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that’s already a visible downgrade.
I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.
bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
mate… the US is by far the most evil country on the international stage, the whole china scare stuff was the US telling everyone what they’ve been doing to US-owned social media all along… this is nothing new or surprising, if you’re just now waking up to this reality I’m sorry you’ve been asleep for so long, but I’m sorry to let you know this is gonna get worse before it gets better. The only chance the US has of avoiding falling deeper into fascism is to have a socialist revolution.
docgerbil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Technically speaking, the application has egregious security concerns that have been well documented. A shame that most of its users don’t care or are ignorant to this.
D_C@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
artyom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
MORE
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Deleted it. My wife then naturally sent me a DM of a thing asking if I could build it cheaper. Reinstalled to see the video, then deleted again.
There are a lot of content creators there I enjoyed but c’est la vie.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If you’re on iOS there are add-ins and such so that the link opens in mobile view in safari without issue.
That’s what I use to view my wife’s TikTok videos she sends me still after I deleted the app.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok, but what are the counts for uninstalls generally? 150% sounds like a lot, but if it’s only a thousand uninstalls a week then it’s only jumped to 1,500 uninstalls. When there are millions of users, that’s…not very much.
I’m not arguing against progress. I’m just saying they are making it sound like this big exodus when it might be minimal in reality.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
China was spying on me in case I had any useful state secrets. America is spying on me because they are actively exploiting every data point in my life for profit and control.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
hahahaha that’s a good one. they all are so addicted they will reinstall it in a week.
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 2 weeks ago
I just recently deleted my account and uninstalled the app. I’m not going to lie, it was hard because I had finally curated my algo to some pretty decent content that wasn’t just brainrot trash.
But I’d rather be bored than give Oracle anything.
pimpampoom@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I wish I could be part of this 150% but I’ve never used TikTok
Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t understand the hype about TikTok anyway. I installed it few weeks ago, and uninstalled few days later because how boring the app is.
I must be old.
eronth@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Up 150% sounds crazy… but like, what’s the rate of installs vs uninstalls here? How has the rate of installs changed?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I understand TikTok to be the bastion of communication and community for Gen Z.
But so much of the content is uncreative. The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.
That said, I do hope TikTok crashes and burns so the new owner loses on their bid. And I do really hope Gen Z can collectively find a new platform to communicate on freely because TikTok has been a force for them just as Twitter and Reddit was for Millenials.
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Careful on your uninstall, once my wife uninstalled from her laptop, all of a sudden her account can’t re-connect to delete her data. There’s lots of talk about this on the forums. Delete your account and uninstall all at once.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I am classically conditioned to hate automatically playing videos from the era of auto play ads on websites
xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wow. That is a giant number. The change made was not good.
itisileclerk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I would uninstall TikTok too but unfortunately I have never installed in a first place.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For anyone looking for new alternatives, I’m sure most Lemmy users can suggest more open-source pubfed options, but for anyone trying to generate a bit more presence (not that there’s much) I did find a YouTube video highlighting some “indie social media” sites, mostly focusing on nostalgia of simpler versions of the historically popular ones.
Having the whole world operate off of publically-owned shared systems is probably an ideal, but having them at least in tight competition, with easy destinations to abandon off to, is still quite a bit better.
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I hate how percentages from 100% and up are used ambiguously.
e.g. 150% vs +150%
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you are uninstalling, you can try the federated alternative: loops
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I downloaded it. It’s very barren right now, no more than a few comments per post, if any. Hopefully it gains some traction
TheMadCodger@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It was like that here when Reddit
fellcaused people to leave and look for something better. Give it time, and interact!98vesselsreptile@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Think of it as an exclusive club where your content has a higher chance of being seen by elite users
silentjohn@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Kinda like fediverse in general. That’s the price of a non-corpo platform
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
ive poked around on there over the past year or so. not much to see and often quite broken.
M137@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t see how few comments is a bad thing? Do you really sit and scroll through the vile idiocy that is tiktok comments? Nowhere does more comments etc. mean it’s better. If anything less people is good.
hazeebabee@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Cool to see how much loops has grown even just in the last year. It gets more and more viable as an alternative all the time. Love seeing the fediverse continue to grow
morto@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
It must be really demanding in terms of hardware and network to host video content like tiktok. I wonder if the fediverse voluntaries will be able to keep up with it if the userbase grows too much
emb@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oof, this still isn’t up on F-Droid or either main app store. That’s a shame, I thought this moment would be a great time for Loops to get some user base, but it seems like it’s still not ready for wider adoption.
That said, it does look a lot better now than it did a few months ago when I last tried it. Here’s hoping it picks up some momentum. I finally tried TikTok last year, and was really impressed by the breadth of videos and how quickly it was able to start showing me things I enjoyed. With the recent change in ownership, I don’t know that I’ll revisit it much if at all. Would take quite a lot to replicate even a little bit of the zeitgeist TikTok had going. But like with Lemmy and Mastodon/Bsky, I’m hoping I can do my little part by choosing where to put my attention.
Gsus4@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
I like it 😃