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.
I understand TikTok to be the bastion of communication and community for Gen Z.
But so much of the content is uncreative. The same songs and sound effects to some stupid reaction video.
That said, I do hope TikTok crashes and burns so the new owner loses on their bid. And I do really hope Gen Z can collectively find a new platform to communicate on freely because TikTok has been a force for them just as Twitter and Reddit was for Millenials.
I do hope TikTok crashes and burns so the new owner loses on their bid.
They bought it to control the narrative on important topics so a loss isn’t a big deal to them. You apparently already can’t talk about Epstein and anti-ICE stuff gets hidden.
Careful on your uninstall, once my wife uninstalled from her laptop, all of a sudden her account can’t re-connect to delete her data. There’s lots of talk about this on the forums. Delete your account and uninstall all at once.
I hate how percentages from 100% and up are used ambiguously.
e.g. 150% vs +150%
I 200% agree with this.
I interpret “up %150” as + %150
The vague part is:
say uninstalls are 1000 / day, so that’s 100%
up 150% is 2500 / day, so 250% of nominal
or is it :)
You’re very right, though for me the abiguity comes from not being confident the person using the thing understands.
I think you already get this, but “Applications are 150% of normal” means you add 50% and “applications are up 150%” means you add 1.5x the original. There’s really no room for interpretation it’s just that errors happen anyway.
I am classically conditioned to hate autoplay videos from the era of auto play ads on websites.
That era is still alive and well, unfortunately. I had to use a browser without an adblocker the other day and I’m pretty sure it gave me PTSD.
Is nobody else concerned that “they” know when software is installed or uninstalled?
No? Why wouldn’t they know? Lots of ways to track that data. Google and apple both keep that data for statistics and app popularity tracking.
I love that this guy thinks the multiple billion dollar companies that make his smart phone exist that we know are selling our data thinks those same comapanies aren’t watching everything we do.
That’s right buddy. Amidst all these articles about data mining, nobody is watching what you do on your phone.
Dude, you think they don’t know when you uninstall an app? Bill Gates has audio of you jerking off and can name the type of porn and time and date he got the audio.
Should be higher, save your selves
Facebook, Insta, YouTube. I know they’re fun and entertaining. But they’re all destroying your mental health. I promise you’ll be happier if you pull the plug on all of them. Delete your account. Touch grass. Volunteer, talk to your neighbors, start a social club.
Besides Lemmy, I left everything else in 2014. Growing up with it all and now seeing the other side…… I’m worried about people.
Ok, but what are the counts for uninstalls generally? 150% sounds like a lot, but if it’s only a thousand uninstalls a week then it’s only jumped to 1,500 uninstalls. When there are millions of users, that’s…not very much.
I’m not arguing against progress. I’m just saying they are making it sound like this big exodus when it might be minimal in reality.
If they’re up 150% and it was 1000 before, it’d now be 2500. Your point still stands, of course.
Guess what, I never created an account. I just can’t get into that quick content, I find it boring after 5 minutes, without substance. I tried both youtube shorts and instagram reels, boring! I prefer long talks or analysis on youtube.
But what about videos of people farting?
But what about videos of DOGS farting?
I could get behind Vine back in the day, because it’s 6 second time limit bred a lot of creativity. But that’s about it
I don’t understand the hype about TikTok anyway. I installed it few weeks ago, and uninstalled few days later because how boring and useless the app is.
I must be old.
The main thing that TikTok had going for it was it was open to both left and right contact and it would show you exactly the content you are interested in due to there algorithm.
It being purchased as caused a lot of issues with that feed being laggy and having issues with mostly left wing content spreading what is happening with Ice and stuff.
But yeah a endless scroll-able system isn’t for everyone obviously.
it was open to both left and right contact
I don’t believe that for a minute. The CCP just had more subtle methods for suppressing content critical of them.
The owner is Singaporean not Chinese. Also yes there was plenty of content that I have been able to find that is critical of the CCP
Zhang Yiming? I could only find him denying he’s Singaporean. Everything says he’s Chinese. It could be bullshit if he’s cozying up to the PRC, but that only proves my point.
You must be 80 if you can’t understand these very basic concepts that attracts kids.
There are more than “kids” using that app. Plenty of adults and military personnel use it for news. Hilarious but true.
To call them all kids means you’re old too. 😊
I would uninstall TikTok too but unfortunately I have never installed in a first place.
Lmao amount of ppl defending TikTok in the comment is funny af
Not surprising, since you’d need tp be willfully ignorant to have used tiktok when it first came out with all the privacy concerns even back then with the app doing weird things.
And those who use it despite that are pretty addicted to the content on it. They in the same category as those that continue to use twitter.
Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.
Now that ownership has changed, there’s an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that’s already a visible downgrade.
I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.
Technically speaking, the application has egregious security concerns that have been well documented. A shame that most of its users don’t care or are ignorant to this.
mate… the US is by far the most evil country on the international stage, the whole china scare stuff was the US telling everyone what they’ve been doing to US-owned social media all along… this is nothing new or surprising, if you’re just now waking up to this reality I’m sorry you’ve been asleep for so long, but I’m sorry to let you know this is gonna get worse before it gets better. The only chance the US has of avoiding falling deeper into fascism is to have a socialist revolution.
I will defend TicTacs to my dying day!!
Mwahahaha!!
i deleted Tiktok years ago
thank god people are deleting it (cause i remember it being Toxic and stuff)hahahaha that’s a good one. they all are so addicted they will reinstall it in a week.
My life has only gotten worse since getting addicted to forums and social media. I’ve become much less productive as well. Feels bad :(
If you consider reading and writing as part of productivity then you became more productive! /s
I remember when tiktok was getting blocked. People got pretty riled up that they didn’t have access to their propaganda app anymore.
