¡Otra vez! TikTok US down por 2ª interrupción de Oracle en un mes 😩
Lag al postear, data center Ashburn fallando desde la mañana...
¿Nuevo dueño Oracle y ya dos outages? No es el mejor debut. ¿Volverá pronto? 👀📉
Si vous n’avez pas la ref, la présentation à vérifier de près : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/PhzqD9IpvGM
J’ai pas eu le temps de check cette semaine : #UpScrolled, qui a fait ses devoirs sur la team / le fondateur, l’actionnariat / l’incubateur qui le pousse, (la roadmap vers 🙄) la fédération fédiverse etc. ?
New #BlueSky effect pour remplacer #TikTokUS ou #Instagram and same shit et personne n’a le temps pour ces conneries, ou on regarde plus attentivement ?
Multiple sources is always better
TikTok’s U.S. transition is triggering a trust crisis. After shifting into a U.S. joint venture led by Oracle and closely tied to Larry Ellison, TikTok is facing sharp user backlash. Reported uninstall rates jumped ~150% in just five days. Users are reporting service outages and alleged content suppression, including the blocking of political videos, protest clips, and even certain keywords that fail to send messages. TikTok denies intentional censorship, calling the issues technical glitches, but skepticism is growing. As platform ownership, infrastructure control, and speech concerns collide, even state officials are reportedly probing potential bias claims. This moment highlights a fragile reality: once trust cracks, scale no longer protects platforms. Follow NextGenAI for clear signal on tech, power, and platforms.
So it appears that since the #TiktokUS takeover, the words #ICE and #Epstein are censored…
Did not see that one coming…
Oh wait…
TikTok is censoring the words “Epstein” and “ICE” — and that alone should tell you how fast political censorship just arrived in America. Over the past several days, users across the US have reported that messages containing the word “Epstein” are blocked outright, flagged as violations of TikTok’s Community Guidelines. Videos critical of Donald Trump or documenting ICE raids and protests — including in Minneapolis — are reportedly being buried, throttled, or left sitting at zero views. This didn’t happen in a vacuum.It happened less than a week after TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, was forced to hand over majority control of its US operations to a group of American investors aligned with Trump. Since that takeover, the censorship complaints have piled up fast. Not rumors. Not fringe users. Elected officials are saying it out loud. California Governor Gavin Newsom announced a state-level probe into whether TikTok is violating state law by suppressing Trump-critical content. “It’s time to investigate,” he wrote publicly, after screenshots circulated showing the word “Epstein” being blocked outright. State Senator Scott Wiener went further. He says a TikTok video he posted explaining legislation that would allow people to sue ICE agents was effectively shadow-banned — stuck at zero views while other content performed normally. “TikTok is now state-controlled media,” Wiener said. TikTok’s response? A familiar corporate shrug. The company claims the issues are the result of a “major infrastructure” failure caused by a power outage at a US data center, triggering cascading system errors — slower loads, missing views, blocked posts, vanishing engagement. But here’s the problem: infrastructure failures don’t selectively block politically sensitive words. Power outages don’t mysteriously suppress criticism of the sitting president or footage of federal law enforcement raids. What we’re watching isn’t a bug. It’s a stress test. A platform with more than 200 million American users just changed hands — and almost immediately, discussion of elite scandal and state violence started disappearing. This is what soft censorship looks like in 2026. No bans. No police at the door. Just invisible throttles, muted keywords, and a public square quietly fenced in behind the scenes. You don’t lose democracy all at once. You lose it word by word. | 57 comments on LinkedIn
There's now a Fediverse alternative to TikTok called Loops. It's currently in beta testing so it is rough round the edges, but you can sign up and try it for yourself. More info at: ➡️ https://joinloops.org You can follow its official account at: ➡️ @loops@pixelfed.social There's an iPhone app just released at: ➡️ https://apps.apple.com/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182 Loops now federates with the Fediverse, there are several Loops servers and Loops accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc (e.g. @dansup@loops.video). #FediTips #Tiktok #TiktokUS
There's now a Fediverse alternative to TikTok called Loops. It's currently in beta testing so it is rough round the edges, but you can sign up and try it for yourself. More info at:
You can follow its official account at:
➡️ @loops
There's an iPhone app just released at:
➡️ https://apps.apple.com/app/loops-by-pixelfed/id6499375182
Loops now federates with the Fediverse, there are several Loops servers and Loops accounts can be followed from Mastodon etc (e.g. @dansup).
What if #tiktok disappears overnight or gets MAGA fied like #TikTokUS ? We have @loops for the #Fediverse. Check out this video by @Buage!
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