Ā”Otra vez! TikTok US down por 2ĀŖ interrupciĆ³n de Oracle en un mes š©
Lag al postear, data center Ashburn fallando desde la maƱana...
ĀæNuevo dueƱo Oracle y ya dos outages? No es el mejor debut. ĀæVolverĆ” pronto? šš
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Jāai pas eu le temps de check cette semaine : #UpScrolled, qui a fait ses devoirs sur la team / le fondateur, lāactionnariat / lāincubateur qui le pousse, (la roadmap vers š) la fĆ©dĆ©ration fĆ©diverse etc. ?
New #BlueSky effect pour remplacer #TikTokUS ou #Instagram and same shit et personne nāa le temps pour ces conneries, ou on regarde plus attentivement ?
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TikTokās 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 censoredā¦
Did not see that one comingā¦
Oh waitā¦
TikTok is censoring the words āEpsteinā and āICEā ā 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 āEpsteinā are blocked outright, flagged as violations of TikTokās Community Guidelines. Videos critical of Donald Trump or documenting ICE raids and protests ā including in Minneapolis ā are reportedly being buried, throttled, or left sitting at zero views. This didnāt happen in a vacuum.It happened less than a week after TikTokās 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. āItās time to investigate,ā he wrote publicly, after screenshots circulated showing the word āEpsteinā 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 ā stuck at zero views while other content performed normally. āTikTok is now state-controlled media,ā Wiener said. TikTokās response? A familiar corporate shrug. The company claims the issues are the result of a āmajor infrastructureā failure caused by a power outage at a US data center, triggering cascading system errors ā slower loads, missing views, blocked posts, vanishing engagement. But hereās the problem: infrastructure failures donāt selectively block politically sensitive words. Power outages donāt mysteriously suppress criticism of the sitting president or footage of federal law enforcement raids. What weāre watching isnāt a bug. Itās a stress test. A platform with more than 200 million American users just changed hands ā 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 donāt 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: ā”ļø https://joinloops.org You can follow its official account at: ā”ļø @[email protected] There's an iPhone app just released at: ā”ļø 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. @[email protected]). #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:
ā”ļø https://joinloops.org
You can follow its official account at:
ā”ļø @loops
There's an iPhone app just released at:
ā”ļø 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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