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As TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands settle into the fediverse (digiday.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The possibility of a TikTok ban is inching closer to becoming a reality at this point. On Tuesday, the Senate passed the bill that would bar the social media platform from operating in the U.S. unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells its stake.

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It begs the question: In today’s social landscape, do brands ever own their audiences?

The answer is no, according to three agency executives who say it’s time to start exploring contingency plans that don’t hinge on any of the walled gardens of social media titans like Meta, X or TikTok. Looking for the next frontier, some are pointing toward the fediverse.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

If every news agency's website supported activitypub, and every brand's website's blog were a fediverse blog, and their notifcation platform mastodon, their forums federated, and so on and so forth, I think that would make a very chatty, but very rich web.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I despise tiktok but banning it entirely through law sets an extremely scary precedent. What happens when the big N tries to go after emulators this way, or if corpos go after third party apps under some guise of business stability or something, scary stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I don't quite follow this give Nintendo more power to do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

The need for decentralization & federation is self evident.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh fuck no, we aren't safe anywhere are we?

[+] [email protected] -8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

capitalism corrupts everything it touches with enough time

can't wait for the fediverse to die 🙂

EDIT: I thought it was obvious that my illogical phrase, in combination with the emoji, would be recognized as sarcasm, but apparently y'all need a big "/s"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

By chance the fediverse might've developed a resilient antibody and regeneration system:

due to allowing federated communities with transparent moderation logging it means that users are free to choose from a plethora of instances to set up camp and create

back on reddit it wasn't possible as there was only one without connections so it acted like a walled garden but now with the spread of Activitypub, it might be difficult for a singular company to have full control unless they're able to offer better services than what's currently available

just a guess but I'd reckon that at minimum 51% of users that care about privacy and security would choose a FOSS instance rather than a closed-source proprietary one

and as time passes I'd imagine that capitalistic instances would decay over time due to insufficient funding and/or user retention as their primary goal would be to squeeze their users which isn't a sustainable model

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Then why are you even on here?