• crystalmerchant@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    There will just be a new (US based) TikTok copycat that springs up, or many. Banning one social media cancer doesn’t stop the others

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      5 hours ago

      This is all about pressuring Bytedance to sell to any of the large US companies dying to get that user base. Remember that one party is currently loaded with tech bros with no ethics.

      Bytedance seems willing to play chicken and hit the wall as a gamble about coming out of this less hurt than anyone else.

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      6 hours ago

      If that was the case people would be using Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts but they are just bad copies that don’t understand what features made TT popular. „The Algorithm” will be impossible to copy and that’s what kept people there.