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It was an almost perfect medium for sharing cooking videos and recipes, can anyone suggest a replacement?
Don't worry I've already uninstalled it (months ago when Ellison bought a majority stake) but I haven't found a replacement short-form video platform for recipes yet
Youtube and instagram are really the only other options, and in this instance youtube is the lesser of 3 evils
YouTube but I use it from ecosia so it doesn't show me 4000 ads per video...
I love Rednote!! Its so much more wholesome!
This was my first thought too but unfortunately the app doesn't play nice with grapheneOS
You can't uninstall that which was never installed.
Right? Didn't want Chinese propaganda or Chud propaganda. Ezpz
I continue to argue that it was nothing but a Psyop campaign to test how to manipulate the American public by the chinese government. and tI doubt that lingering, baseline purpose has changed at all with the new right wing propagandist owners.
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.
Cinnamon challenge. Planking. Flash mobs. Harlem shake. Tiktok isn't responsible or necessary for people to do stupid viral shit
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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).
the only socially acceptable interaction with a nazi, is punching the nazi.
Hey now that's not fair.
Shooting Nazis is also acceptable
Up 150% sounds crazy... but like, what's the rate of installs vs uninstalls here? How has the rate of installs changed?
Yeah if 4 people uninstalled the program last time, and 6 people uninstalled it this time, that's a 150% increase from last time.
Nope. Your math is wrong. 6 people uninstalling would be a 50% increase from the 4 since 2 (the extra people uninstalling) is 50% of 4. For a 150% INCREASE you'd need 10 to uninstall (4 for the origional, 4 more for the extra 100%, and 2 on top of that for the extra 50%).
4 -> 6 would be a 50% increase, or 150% of the previous number. 4 -> 10 would be a 150% increase, or 250% of the previous number.
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.
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.
The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.
Dear God. My friend sent me a video about some Japanese person with some cooking method or something that he recommended I should make try. The video he sent me was annoying as fuck. It was a couple screaming at each other: "OMG IS THAT THE NEW JAPANESE ____ METHOD?" "YES I THINK I'VE HEARD OF THAT" interspersed with the actual narration-free video. Had to stop it after 4-6 seconds.
I asked my friend how he could even stand watching it the video and he said his brain filters it out. I don't know why it just repulsed me so much.
There's also many videos with some person just playing another's person's video and they just point a finger upward to the actual playing video with some useless look on their face and the nodding.
I think this is the nature of these TikTok videos but I'm not really on TikTok much, I just get them sent to me every once in a while.
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Careful on your uninstall, once my wife uninstalled from her phone*, 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.
- my brain said the work i was thinking it wasn't
Should be higher, save your selves
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.
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I am classically conditioned to hate autoplay videos from the era of auto play ads on websites.
That era is still alive and well, unfortunately. I had to use a browser without an adblocker the other day and I'm pretty sure it gave me PTSD.
It still happens on fucking lemmy of all places. Looking at that stupid cbsnews url with revulsion...
The guy literally said to ramp up government surveillance so that citizens are on their best behaviour. So anyone still using TikTok after this is asking for it.
I hate how percentages from 100% and up are used ambiguously.
e.g. 150% vs +150%
I 200% agree with this.
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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.
EDIT: Also Loops is neat from a technical standpoint, but it feels like a ghost town coming from TikTok.
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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.
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You had installed already?
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