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[โ€“] kirklennon@kbin.social 51 points 7 months ago (31 children)

TikTok's daily active users in the U.S. is also just about 5% of ByteDance's DAUs worldwide, said one of the sources.

So much drama in the US over this but it's apparently merely a money-losing afterthought for its owner.

[โ€“] Album@lemmy.ca 91 points 7 months ago (13 children)

It's almost like making money is not the primary purpose of this website ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago (8 children)

Or ... maybe the US isn't the only country in the world?

[โ€“] Album@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's not worth anything, your argument was that the US being such a small percentage of tiktoks userbase meant that the American market is only worthwhile to TikTok as a spying tool. Which does not make any sense.

I'm saying that tiktok has other markets in other countries, and the US only represents a small part of their global reach, so of course tiktok would only be a small percentage of their userbase.

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