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BREAKING - Tiktok has now SHUT DOWN SERVICES in the United States, noting "A law banning Tiktok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now. We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate Tiktok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!"

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[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 57 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

As an European, I sincerely envy you. Death to these crappy social networks.

[–] kajtor@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Social media peaked in 2012/2013, before just before recommendation algorithms became a thing. Everything became insufferable afterwards.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

TBH, I found FB insufferable already in 2008, when I deleted my back-then 1 y/o account.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

Agree, I felt the bad effects of FB around then. It was just so pointless.

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy is nice though

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That's kind of my feeling too, although it's dangerously close to "better back in my day" given my age.

The period after they shut down browser popups, but before they invented those virtual DOM-hacking popups was great, and that's a measurable change.

[–] monsdar@infosec.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's not that they do that because they dislike social networks though

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

The reason behind is not important. The effect is a net positive.

[–] krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Banning isn't the solution. Thankfully this means less yanks on tiktok now.

[–] countrypunk@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Unfortunately they will most likely migrate to Instagram as a result, which isn't good at all especially considering their recently hate speech policy changes targeted towards LGBTQ people and immigrants.