Free_Opinions

I moved from Instagram to Pixelfed around a year ago and went from barely anyone seeing my photography to literally no one seeing it.

This is the best platform for constant live updates about what the people you don't like are up to. Then there's articles about everything that's wrong in the world and also some memes - mostly political.

I don't see how this has anything to do with federated platforms. I'd argue that watching Loops is just as bad for one's mental health than TikTok is.

I wouldn't say that I don't see the appeal of it. I would probably get sucked right in if I gave it a shot. It's a consciouss decision on my part to simply not do that. I don't not-consume short-form media because I'm better than the people who do, I prohibit it from myself.

Like I said, I'm not for this ban. In my view what ever reason is used to ban TikTok should then apply to every other social media aswell. I don't want the government to dictate which content I'm allowed to consume - I should be free to decide for myself. I simply don't view this issue thru the lens of free speech.

It's similar to banning porn. While it's objectively bad for you, so is drinking gasoline and that's not illegal either. If you want to drink gasoline you should be allowed to.

I'm not for banning TikTok but the ban also doesn't conflict with your freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is not about having a megaphone, it's about not being procecuted for the things you've said. You're still free to say the exact same things you were allowed to before the TikTok ban - you just can't do it on TikTok.

I'm sure you're never wrong about anything. Maybe you should start a podcast.

Yeah, but the question was; who decides what is disinformation? If it was some truly competent and unbiased AI system then I perhaps wouldn't be as concerned about it, though I can see issues with that too, but humans are flawed and I see this as a potenttial slippery slope towards tyranny and censorship.