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TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 6 months ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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.

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[–] 227 points 6 months ago* (5 children)

If you are uninstalling, you can try the federated alternative: loops

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  • [–] 95 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I downloaded it. It's very barren right now, no more than a few comments per post, if any. Hopefully it gains some traction

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  • [–] 49 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It was like that here when Reddit fell caused people to leave and look for something better. Give it time, and interact!

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's still kinda like that here.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my "alt" but I can't see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    I don't see how few comments is a bad thing? Do you really sit and scroll through the vile idiocy that is tiktok comments? Nowhere does more comments etc. mean it's better. If anything less people is good.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    ive poked around on there over the past year or so. not much to see and often quite broken.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    what client do you use? it seems as if it even removed your own default upvote, maybe it's the thing that is broken

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    I always un-upvote myself. I tried the latest loops client, it's way more performant than it used to be. id say the only thing i didnt like about it was the overlap in the feeds and the wrap-around feeds. if it's out of content, it should just say so.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago

    It must be really demanding in terms of hardware and network to host video content like tiktok. I wonder if the fediverse voluntaries will be able to keep up with it if the userbase grows too much

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Oof, this still isn't up on F-Droid or either main app store. That's a shame, I thought this moment would be a great time for Loops to get some user base, but it seems like it's still not ready for wider adoption.

    That said, it does look a lot better now than it did a few months ago when I last tried it. Here's hoping it picks up some momentum. I finally tried TikTok last year, and was really impressed by the breadth of videos and how quickly it was able to start showing me things I enjoyed. With the recent change in ownership, I don't know that I'll revisit it much if at all. Would take quite a lot to replicate even a little bit of the zeitgeist TikTok had going. But like with Lemmy and Mastodon/Bsky, I'm hoping I can do my little part by choosing where to put my attention. Just don't know that I'm going to find much there I care to see, for now.

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