TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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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.

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.

  • LfrithEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    Its easier to sway people in the worse direction with more perceived benefits than the more difficult or less appealing ideologically better option.

    • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      the ideologically better option has reasons to be better. they are just longer term reasons that have to be sold and explored to it’s potential within our constraints. we have to show it’s good.

      the fediverse itself is an experiment in this, and i say we are growing a nice community over here that could eventually bring more people in, or at least shift perception and use of the internet in a healthier direction. not unlike some of our predecessors.

      • LfrithEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        I think it is like Linux where those who opt for it are fine with some of the shortcomings being outweighed by aspects they value more.

        For the majority, negatives can be things they don’t even see as a con, but the shortcomings deal breakers.

        I think from a small active community it is fine for users who value that more than being the largest mainstream social media option. But, not something the average mainstream user will go out of their way to stick with.

        • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          18 hours ago

          and like linux, we can figure those shortcomings out and slowly figure out how to solve them.

          its ok for small comms to remain small, but something can bring the mainstream to better options, much like something brought them to the current mainstream over other niche and mainstream options in the first place.

          there’s budding discussion about this on asklemmy atm.

          • LfrithEnglish
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            11 hours ago

            It does say a lot though that I’ve seen comments in this very thread suggesting rednote as a tiktok alternative. So people just doing the same thing all over again even if they use the fediverse.

            I just don’t have much expectations of people changing. Better to just be happy that at least those of us that are “weird” due to being fine with being somewhat cut off from rest of mainstream social media have those options now. So not too concerned about numbers increasing, since it was never much an expectation.

            Old school forums didn’t need more than a few hundred or maybe a thousand active users to be happy compared to the millions people have come to expect now.

            • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
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              9 hours ago

              i’m both satisfied with my decision to leave mainstream social media and i’d like the landscape to be better.