Maybe someday

FartsWithAnAccent

Guess they're China's problem now.

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Yes he would if the option is making 0 dollars. Which is the option Bytedance faces, losing one of their biggest most profitable markets when they could get a big bag or do a stock sale and continue to profit from its growth.

Also I’d like to remind you, the US is not the only country looking to ban TikTok, other western countries are eyeing it as well.

For me their malicious intentions are transparent. Hell this bill passed with full bipartisan support after congress saw the intel acquired by the alphabet agencies proving as much. When was the last that happened?

sunglocto

"Average person"?

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Why sell it, when they can just give trump a paycheck under the table to keep it going?

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Only eating noble gases.

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Noble gases are chemicals too, damn it!

The only thing that isn't "chemicals" is literally just vacuum.

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That is definitely the appeal. My friends who use apps with algorithms like tik tok tell me that is the reason they use the apps. I can't blame them. Those algorithms showed me loads of obscure musical artists that are still my favorite today (and that is a good thing for indies/small businesses who don't have much money for ad spaces). There is a lot of good reasons for algorithms like that, the problem is the data necessary to make them work and what other stuff they do with it.

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Have you seen what acquiring lots of mainstream users does to a platform?

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Algorithm control is what AT Proto offers that fediverse doesn't

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Even a vacuum has random particles coming in and out of existence, it's not even empty space

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Not until they move there

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But when someone says they want no chemicals in their food, you know exactly what they mean.

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Is the cute little monster thing eating powdered sugar with his whole face?

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You're expecting Zoomers and Gen Alpha irreversibly addicted to short-form video content, which has resulted in an attention span that doesn't extend past 30 seconds, to READ?

Chev

I actually enjoy not having a strong algorithm here. This way I can spend as little as possible on my only social media app that I use.

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A lot of people are going to rednote as a show of protest:

these people have had their data mined since they were babies, they've been taught by the market since birth that their data isn't something they should value
then they're told that it's bad that these other people can access their data, with no explanation as to why it's any different
while at the same time being told that it's totally fine for the folks who are already mining your data to sell it to the people who shouldn't have your data

So they're basically saying "you're lying, and your explanation contradicts your previous behavior, so I'm gonna do the exact opposite of what you want"
Again because they don't actually care about their data

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Ok boomer

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Fwiw Tiktok apparently just open sourced their algorithm a week or so ago.

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Did someone call for me???

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When you sort your feed by hot vs top vs new, that's already what you're doing kinda.

But the platform has to have the data to support the algorithm, so you can't just "load in" whatever algorithm you want. Besides, that sounds like a security nightmare for the platform lol