This will help spread awareness that there are other sources for apps when people start asking where they can download tictok.
this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2024
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It also has a web client.
I would assume they also plan on shutting down US servers. If they move all the content and host it outside the US, I'm not sure what the government's next step would be. Wonder if we're going to build the next great firewall of China in the US.
The web client is intentionally bad.
I suspect they maintain it just as it means to allow non-users to click links and get hooked
And search engine hits
Oddly enough, I've never seen one hit. But I am kind of on the fringe of search engines at the moment.
Pinterest invaded Google image search a while ago.
Tiktok invaded their video results.
Google have kinda sorted it, but it really depends on what you search for. The less "real" results you expect to find (or the more esoteric the keywords), the more garbage tiktok/Pinterest you have to scroll through.
Yeah I was digging for a shit on the New Jersey drone sightings, searx showed nothing of use, I went directly to Google and got some YouTube results but that was about it. I had to go directly to TikTok to actually get people posting about it. Then again it might be on their blacklist.
Probs. It also prompts you to download the app every time you open a link.
Replies aren’t thinking scale.
Making the app just difficult enough to access to be annoying is a death sentence. Sure maybe 100k ppl still find a way to use it but those are small numbers.
And when the content depends on access to millions of eyeballs that's not exactly a strong reason to continue making content.
...is that it? That's their whole fucking plan to actually enforce that asinine law‽
LMAO I gotta order some more popcorn
It's all that's needed. Social Media lives and dies by the network effect so as popular creators get forced off or choose to leave the platform the content consumers will also leave.
Beyond that very few users of any service or platform will expend the time and effort trying to install an app from alternate sources so as devices die or get reset those users will disappear. As an example back in 2013 Flappy Bird was stupid popular but once you couldn't install it directly from a regular app store anymore it died off.
TT is 12 months from death in the United States. I hope Bluesky is ready for them.
More likely youtube
I donno, one would argue the FOMO would cause even more americans to flock to tictok once it's "banned". The primary demographic is younger people, who are smart enough to find a way.
The Tiktok demographic is less technologically capable than their parents.
Yeah you might be right. I'm getting pretty out of touch with the younger generations these days.
Cool, now to move on to all other repositories of vertical videos and short-form brainrot.