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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture

https://reddthat.com/post/58995193

TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture - Reddthat

>TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture. > >The short-form video platform’s daily average app uninstalls in the U.S. have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.

Wow. That is a giant number. The change made was not good.

If previously there we 1’000 uninstalls per day, not there are 1’500. Relative numbers like that are useless.

CatsGoMOW Jan 26

No, your example is only a 50% increase. A 150% increase of 1000 is 2500.

MalReynolds Jan 27

Assuming cnbc clickbait headlines can math of course. Bold assumption.

CatsGoMOW Jan 27

My comment wasn’t about the article, it was about the other commenter’s bad math. But the article does actually say it increased by 150%.

MalReynolds Jan 27

Yup, my comment wasn’t about your good math, it was about my low expectations of the source :)

I did not specify the % so I am save :3

If they're "up 150%" then it's now 2500.

Correct, but I did not specify the % so I am save :3

IntrovertTurtle Jan 26

Good. Fuck TikTok.

MagicShel Jan 26

Deleted it. My wife then naturally sent me a DM of a thing asking if I could build it cheaper. Reinstalled to see the video, then deleted again.

There are a lot of content creators there I enjoyed but c’est la vie.

TheMinions Jan 26

If you’re on iOS there are add-ins and such so that the link opens in mobile view in safari without issue.

That’s what I use to view my wife’s TikTok videos she sends me still after I deleted the app.

criticon Jan 27

You can kinda use it to watch a single video on firefox on android, but you have to log in (that’s my experience)

JayGray91🐉🍕Jan 27

I never had to log in ever when looking at TikTok videos nnt friends sent. Live streams though have to log in.

pelespirit Jan 26

This is now a right wing propaganda machine. I deleted awhile ago.

Several social media posts pointed to language in the new policy that describes the types of data TikTok may collect, including sensitive information such as “your racial or ethnic origin” as well as “sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information.”

Despite the social media uproar, that language does not appear to be new. An archived version of the policy from August 2024 includes the same provisions.

FiniteBanjo Jan 27

It was always a rightwing propoganda machine, it helped Trumo get elected.

Now its 50% Blue Fascist in addition to the Red Fascist.

We will see 100% of tiktok users uninstall. Even 200%, 300% 400% up to 500% and more including 600%. Percents like no one has seen.

🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Jan 26

Breaking News: TikTok user counts plummet into negative numbers!

oopsgodisdeadmybad Jan 27

Not sure if this is parody-ing a certain orangie’s math fail, or genuinely confused.

The 150% increase is in number of uninstalls when comparing to the average uninstalls they had before. In other words, the current number of daily uninstalls is 2.5 times the previous one.

felixwhynot Jan 26

If you are uninstalling, you can try the federated alternative: loops

Nurse_Robot Jan 26

I downloaded it. It’s very barren right now, no more than a few comments per post, if any. Hopefully it gains some traction

TheMadCodger Jan 27

It was like that here when Reddit fell caused people to leave and look for something better. Give it time, and interact!

It’s still kinda like that here.

myserverisdown Jan 27

I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my “alt” but I can’t see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

GhostlyPixel Jan 27

lemmy.world had blocked and then unblocked a bunch of piracy communities that being one of them

But it looks like lemmy.world is currently not federating that piracy one specifically, maybe I missed another announcement

Unremoval of Piracy Communities - Lemmy.world

Hello World! As we’ve all known and talked about quite a lot, we previously blocked several piracy-focused communities. These communities, as announced [https://lemmy.world/post/3234363], were: - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]], - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]], - [email protected] [/c/[email protected]], and their local counterparts as follow up actions. In our removal announcement [https://lemmy.world/post/3234363], we stated that we will continue to look into this more in detail, and re-allow these communities if and when we deem it safe. It was a solid concern at the time, because we were already receiving takedown requests as well as constant attacks, and didn’t want to put our volunteer team at risk. We had zero measures in place, and the tools we had were insufficient to deal with anything at scale. Well, after back and forth with some very cool people, and starting to have proper measures as well as tooling to protect ourselves, we decided it’s time to welcome these communities back again. Long live the IT nerds! We know it’s been a rough ride with everything, and we’d like to thank every one of you who were understanding of us, and stayed with us all the way. Please know that as users, you are what makes this platform what it is, and damned we be if we ever forget it. With love, and as always, stay safe in the high seas! Lemmy.world Team ❤️

I can’t see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

Does that include comments?

myserverisdown Jan 28

No, I see comments just fine, but the community is blocked

Kinda like fediverse in general. That’s the price of a non-corpo platform

ReptileVessel Jan 27

Think of it as an exclusive club where your content has a higher chance of being seen by elite users

ive poked around on there over the past year or so. not much to see and often quite broken.

WhyJiffie Jan 27

what client do you use? it seems as if it even removed your own default upvote, maybe it’s the thing that is broken

I always un-upvote myself. I tried the latest loops client, it’s way more performant than it used to be. id say the only thing i didnt like about it was the overlap in the feeds and the wrap-around feeds. if it’s out of content, it should just say so.

I don’t see how few comments is a bad thing? Do you really sit and scroll through the vile idiocy that is tiktok comments? Nowhere does more comments etc. mean it’s better. If anything less people is good.

Nurse_Robot Jan 27

Do you not see the irony in replying to my comment in order to comment that comments are full of vile idiocy?

Jännät Jan 28

If anything less people is good.

Maybe get off social media, then

hazeebabee Jan 27

Cool to see how much loops has grown even just in the last year. It gets more and more viable as an alternative all the time. Love seeing the fediverse continue to grow

I like it 😃

Oof, this still isn’t up on F-Droid or either main app store. That’s a shame, I thought this moment would be a great time for Loops to get some user base, but it seems like it’s still not ready for wider adoption.

That said, it does look a lot better now than it did a few months ago when I last tried it. Here’s hoping it picks up some momentum. I finally tried TikTok last year, and was really impressed by the breadth of videos and how quickly it was able to start showing me things I enjoyed. With the recent change in ownership, I don’t know that I’ll revisit it much if at all. Would take quite a lot to replicate even a little bit of the zeitgeist TikTok had going. But like with Lemmy and Mastodon/Bsky, I’m hoping I can do my little part by choosing where to put my attention.

It must be really demanding in terms of hardware and network to host video content like tiktok. I wonder if the fediverse voluntaries will be able to keep up with it if the userbase grows too much

Meanwhile joinloops.org and joinpeertube.org keep getting better and better

Hopefully more creators will take notice and at least crosspost their content on better platforms too.

Loops - Short videos. Your community. Your rules.

All the fun of short-form video, none of the corporate control. Loops is federated, open-source, and designed to give power back to creators and communities.

Butterphinger Jan 27

…We can’t keep doing this, guys

chemical_cutthroat Jan 27

I think it might be because you are using an embedded browser window in whatever lemmy app you are using. When I go in through firefox mobile it looks fine.

Butterphinger Jan 27

Ah ha! Yes, this was voyager’s fault.

False alarm!

WhyJiffie Jan 27

but that looks like an embedded firefox, in custom tabs mode. I think it’s common for apps to open links in your default browser that way.

WhyJiffie Jan 27

that being said, it works correctly here with and without javascript, in firefox, opened from voyager, so I don’t get it

emeralddawn45 Jan 27

What browser are you using? It works fine for me on Android Firefox. Even with JavaScript disabled.

JustEnoughDucks Jan 27

Now you can see 30 of the same reposted tiktok spam blasting low quality live music instead of 10!

Oh well I guess it doesn’t matter anyway because if you try to update the app anyway it just downloads an invalid APK lol

for the one peertube server i wanted to follow something on, i couldnt figure out how to point the peertube ios app to an arbitrary peertube server. seems not in the fediverse spirit

The web instances work pretty well, that’s a shame the iOS app didn’t work for you. I’m only a consumer not a producer of video content so I interact with a fedi microblogging platform instead of having an account on a peertube platform itself. The Android app seemed okay but following users with RSS and interacting via my microblogging account, as well as directly checking my favorite platforms’ sites occasionally for serendipity seems to work the best for me.

I’m sure with the fundraising blitz the apps will get better too this year.

👏👏👏👏👏

F/15/[email protected]Jan 27

I feel like I remember the tankies saying something about there being no potential issues with using TikTok. Has there been any reaction in the triad?

Tiktok was THE platform for pro-gaza content and solidarity. Leaks from Congress proves this. It’s a shell of what it once was now that the US oligarchs are in control of it and have turned it into their right wing spyware platform.

Blocked for unironically using the word ‘tankie’.

Ok tankie

BrainInABox Jan 27

Ok fascist

Well hold on, I’m neither of these things, but isn’t tankie a communist thing? And if so, why would somebody calling a duck a duck automatically be a fascist? Unless, is anybody that is not a communist a fascist?? I thought fascists were auth right, specifically?

BrainInABox Jan 27

Tankie is a pejorative for communists that gets unilaterally branded onto people by anti-communists. I’m happy to declare people using it unironically to be fascists, and if you don’t agree with that, well, tough luck, you were the one who started throwing around snarl words

I think you’re missing my question. I’m asking you if communists actually consider all non communists to be fascists. I’m genuinely unsure.

BrainInABox Jan 27

No. They don’t

F/15/[email protected]Jan 27

I mean, you guys have legitimately genocidal folks like yogthos that your admins pat on the head as they bludgeon their way through every conversation with 4chan speak. I do not respect you enough to feel offended by your absence. If you don’t like the word, sort out your tankie users.