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How would you feel about it?

Let's pretend lemmy just got a sick ass video hosting feature for this example.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have no interest in short form video no matter how sick-ass. So I'd ignore it, and if that weren't possible I'd leave.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago

Same, I just don't want to watch videos of random people talking to their phone camera. It's such a narcissistic "look at me" way to use social media that I can't relate to it at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Videos are obnoxious

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I would be skeptical that it wouldn't become a dumpster fire overnight.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Please tell me this fucking song got hit with the UMG pull

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The song is owned by UMG, yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

And finally, the world was at peace

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I'd make heavy use of the block feature. Then probably leave eventually

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"I'm too old for this shit."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

TikTok tends to appeal to younger users, as 41% of its users are between the ages of 16 and 24. As of 2021, these individuals are considered Generation Z.

Hmm. Yeah, I'm pretty confident that the average age range on the Fediverse is higher than on TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I'm 20 and already too old for tiktok

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

“What happened? Why does Lemmy suck now?”

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

"There goes the neighborhood."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

"Goddamnit"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

My first thought would be "why can't I load Lemmy" as they DDOSed the site

Shy of that, "good for them." Glad they wouldn't choose anything worse 😉

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I’d probably jump ship. The dynamic that exists on TikTok is not something I have any interest in participating in. And that’s entirely putting aside the massive user privacy issues.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I'll give it a week and they'll be gone. Lemmy is not built for short-form content and very short attention spans, so the format won't work for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I'd probably have to filter out the sudden influx of TikTok-like shorts, but I'd still be glad to have more people to connect with, and on a FOSS platform no less.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everyone seems scared but I would be happy that such a FOSS designed project would finally be used in mass scale.

Sure content would not be the same, but the structure of lemmy would probably encourage more discussion and problem solving rather than hate induced comments or crazy mob-like behaviour.

When I talk about structure, I talk about some feature like having a downvote, not so much advertisement, the fediverse, no(or just not so much) incentive to make money from the platform, text based posts, custom front ends, etc...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Video hosting man ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

There's no hard limit on the number of people you can block in Lemmy (unlike the alien site which assumes only 1,000 assholes exist in the world). If the TikTok-ers mostly come from one instance, defederation would be swift. Barring that, I would just engineer a solution since my instance runs a lot of custom frontned/backend components already.

TL;DR: I'd notice it long enough to get annoyed, but it would be an easily solvable problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"Why is this not loading?" as inevitably nothing will load when the servers get 1000x the traffic they were expecting.

But assuming the servers would somehow handle it, it would be a huge boon to Lemmy. There are a lot of people here saying they would leave, but I think that's stupid. The reason why I left Reddit was that the platform gave me the middle finger, it had nothing to do with the users. The same goes for TikTok, but this time the middle finger comes with a thousand prying eyes. On Lemmy, I could finally find communities in the niche hobbies that I like.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I'd just hope they all join a tiktok-specific instance so it's easy enough to filter out. But it would be nice to see a larger adoption of the fediverse (although I feel like overnight growth of that scale might rock the boat too much, it would be far more preferable to have a more gradual adoption).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

My thirst thought would be "poor admins. They need to stock up on storage when all this videos are gonna be federated".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Easily filtered so I wouldn't care too much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Who tf signed me up for tic tack?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would find some other platform. Maybe back to forums, but I would miss a nice app for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Huh, Lemmy got video now? Interesting. Well, block that user, subscribe to this new video based community, also block this user within the community. Oh hey, this person I recognize from YouTube Shorts is here, too.

I think there would be a lot of sorting to do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Why TF is the server so slow?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If I was qualified and competent enough to be around the general population, I would be on Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I have some immediate suspicions, but that's the easy way out. I'd have to see. After all Tiktok has worthwhile content, I'm told.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That depends on how they were posting.

If suddenly every post was a vertical video with every title and comment in Gen Z slang and therefore unreadable to me I'd wonder what the fuck happened. Otherwise I probably wouldn't notice unless people were actively talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Id be sad knowing that servers will probably crash

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I would look at the clock radio and see if it's playing "I got you babe" by Sonny and Cher.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Capybara...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

hab threads situation but sooner

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The LGBTQ+ communities will be amazing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Ah, Hell No.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, the id10t invasion has begon, flee!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

We that were once Redditors already invaded this place about 7 months ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Oh no, not again?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well this will make things a lot easier for the CCP

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, the CCP doesn't own the TikTok userbase.

I guess maybe you could say "there'd be a lot of users from China", but my vague understanding -- I don't use TikTok -- is that TikTok isn't available in China. For domestic use, there's a different platform, Douyin, from the same company. TikTok is only aimed at the international market.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/24/tech/tiktok-douyin-bytedance-china-intl-hnk/index.html

Based on the statistics in this video, the largest bloc of TikTok users are in the US, followed by Indonesia and Brazil.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It's fine. You see what you want and filter what you want.

Also, who says we aren't already here?

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