TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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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.

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.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Think we’ve learned most people are easily impressionable or hateful or both with how easily they get swept up in things that disturb us, and its unfortunately a minority that aren’t despite being no more privileged, educated, or smarter than peers.

      I guess its kind of like gambling as an example where no matter how much people try and dissuade others from falling into it their attempts fall on deaf ears to the majority actions. And its not that people who don’t fall into it are smarter.

      Sometimes the issue is that the vast collective is just already set on their own course of action, and we’re just taken along for the ride due to their vast numbers and drowned out.

        • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Its easier to sway people in the worse direction with more perceived benefits than the more difficult or less appealing ideologically better option.

            • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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              1 month ago

              I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.

              For the majority, negatives can be things they don’t even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.

              I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.

                • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
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                  1 month ago

                  It does say a lot though that I’ve seen comments in this very thread suggesting rednote as a tiktok alternative. So people just doing the same thing all over again even if they use the fediverse.

                  I just don’t have much expectations of people changing. Better to just be happy that at least those of us that are “weird” due to being fine with being somewhat cut off from rest of mainstream social media have those options now. So not too concerned about numbers increasing, since it was never much an expectation.

                  Old school forums didn’t need more than a few hundred or maybe a thousand active users to be happy compared to the millions people have come to expect now.