Are you being intentionally daft? You realise there is no algorithm behind Lemmy, right? You aren't being shoved controversial polarizing content subliminally here.

The worst of Lemmy is a certain instance... That I have never heard from after defederation.

You're comparing assholes to oranges

Uhhh, dude - it's not illegal. As others have mentioned, it's a foreign (hostile) actor contributing to election interference efforts in violation of established law. It is essentially enforcing another law that's already on place!

The complication with fb et al is that as US companies, there are other laws that protect their actions (and I'm not going to minimize the effects of powerful lobbyists).

Am I a Reddit boomer when I’m 21 and like (some) Tiktok-esque kind of content?

I’ve never used TikTok, but not because I don’t get the idea of using audio as meme template or because I don’t like short videos. But just because that specific platform itself is so vile.
Not just talking about funding the Chinese government, TikTok e.g. reduces reach of neurodivergent people. Even worse, it censors information against China‘s authoritarianism and much more.

Why can’t I be happy that this awful platform loses reach? The content itself will be kept, there are enough copycats.

Also, Lemmy is full of people that stopped using Reddit for ethical reasons. So it’s not surprising many are against TikTok as well tbh.

Which corporation's profits do you think banning TikTok is intended to protect?

Also, "boomer" is a specific group of people and applying that term to everyone who doesn't agree with you makes it pretty damn silly and meaningless.

I mean they're literally just the guys who read about like, say, 4chan being bad, right, but then never actually use the site itself to see. I mean, yeah, if you go on /pol/ or /r9k/, and then scroll around for like 5 minutes, you can find some content that's going to reinforce your bias that the site is kind of an ontologically evil fascist hellscape, but if you go on /mu/ it's gonna be no more toxic than basically any other forum you could go on. It's just people thoughtlessly parroting the narratives that they've heard from other people.

I don't like tiktok, I don't like lemmy, I kind of hate social media even though it's like infested my life because I have no self control, but I'm not gonna be like. This is such an epic pog moment! I'm so pegged outta my gourd! when it gets banned. Because I've used it, thoroughly, not just first glance, and I actually understand the pros and cons of the platform. These guys don't have that, they only have like, the white stale wonderbread and wood chips of social media usage, they only have reddit, and even more libbed up privacy reddit, i.e. the most obvious and in your face social media platforms of all time that give you (ostensibly, in practice, it's the opposite) a very high amount of control over what they're seeing. Of course they hate tiktok. On top of the brainrot privacy concerns they all probably have, they're gonna discard it on the basis that they don't have the self-control to use its platform, and project that onto everyone else. It's like a puritan hating coffee, or cocaine, without understanding that it's a great morning drink, or without understanding that it makes pro wrestling promos wayyyyy fucking better.