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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture (www.cnbc.com)
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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.

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[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 37 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

I feel old every time I share that I’ve never installed TikTok and don’t have an account.

In many ways, I feel a bit like I am still forced to ambiently and peripherally use the app when interacting with the rest of social media and society. Because the damn format, and culture, and way of thinking and producing videos has seeped so deep into all aspects of our lives.

The whole mode of consuming media in an algorithmic flipbook like that weirds me out. I don’t understand how anyone can enjoy being enticed to watch videos in the way TikTok promotes.

[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

I feel you on that. Even not being on xyz social trend of the day you still get exposed to the mentality of it by the people that are. To some extent that's fine, but it can get old really quickly.

I don't want to doom scroll all day and night. I don't want to socialize on media and follow people or have followers. Random people are not my entertainment. I don't need my phone in my hand 24/7.

My take is that I will live my life by my culture. If people see me be me and follow my example, great. If people think I'm a weirdo, oh well I'll just go do my own thing.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 22 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't feel old.

I just feel correct and justified in never installing a foreign weapon which exposes every contact, photo, nearby device, and message to an evil dictatorship that wants us all dead in a fire (up to 2 dictatorships now).

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, I strayed away from tiktok and before that facebook, instagram, Twitter. Social media that encourages many users to forgo their privacy and share their faces and voices just always seemed like red flags.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz -5 points 9 hours ago

Tiktok was lit until late 2020, when they really started clamping down on subversive content at the behest of the US.