Maga should totally mess around with social media censorship, worked out great in Indonesia
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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Had to leave Twitter when it became a Nazi site, I can leave TikTok to I guess.
You know, given how exploitative and harmful TikTok has been from the start, it might have been better never to use it at all.
I'm guilty of being on TikTok too, mainly used to keep up with a few artists I listen to, but at the end of the day, the platform is just another exploitative data-harvesting machine.
I never used either. Never really understood the culture of gormlessly scrolling through mind-numbing content.
But then I also gave up broadcast TV before even Netflix was popular. Just spent a small fortune on bargain bin DVDs instead.
me nervously doom-scrolling on lemmy via voyager 👀
I've been averse to trends like this, but I did get on Facebook and Insta this summer at the urging of some friends (I run a nonprofit so it's useful to network). By last week I had both apps on my phone and was just numbscrolling through Insta videos. Realized my mental health had gone to absolute shit in weeks. Deleted the apps andI'm feeling myself again.
It really is dangerous what they've created, if I didn't have ambition, I would be right there zombified.
It's mainly the kids and low information adults who are on Tiktok, that's why it's popular.
He isn't even trying to be an American president. Only to his lie-loving MAGA.
If that's what it takes for people to stop using that stupid a** social media, I'm all for it.
glad you bend over so easily. Saves whoever the cost of lube even.
The open corruption, clear as day illegal and unconstitutional moves, and his overall smugness is embarrassing.
The GOP has gone insane to allow this man to continue like this. They are all sick with power and are hoping to "get theirs" next from daddy trump.
They are ALL traitors and should be charged for allowing the crimes to continue.
"Jesus this"
You voted for Trump
"Free market that"
You voted for Trump
But they don't have the fucking power. They're letting Trump do whatever he wants, and eroding their own authority in the process.
"I don't want real power, because with real power comes real responsibility, and I don't want any of that shit. I just want the money. And the illusion of power. And puss."
My decision to remain on rednote is once again validated
In other words, trump says "Stop looking for the Epstein files!".
Tiktok was China's soft propaganda because they suppressed unfavorable content rather then promote favorable content. Trump going full MAGA with it would kill the platform because people use tiktok to stop thinking about distressing things. Not be exposed to more of it.
What can be done to let https://loops.video/ profit from this even more than mastodon profited from the end of Twitter?
I'll just leave this here.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels
As with all social media, as soon as grandma and grandpa get on, it all goes down hill.
It's gone full circle. Grandparents are the only reason I even have a Facebook account anymore.
Goddamn this is dark. Just when can i expect people to ever start actually fighting back in any sort of tangibly productive manner? We are so fucked.
Just when can i expect people to ever start actually fighting back in any sort of tangibly productive manner?
Never. Fighting takes strength and the typical american is chronically burned out.
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the dump doesn't belong in Politics. Simple Common Sense
TikTok was never good. Have at it.
Though, he is always free to start his own MAGA-themed video service, much like he did with Truth Social. I think the problem is — and if he doesn't know it, he's been advised, with crayons and hand puppets — that running a server serving video is orders of magnitude more expensive than running a server hosting a text-based social network.
i really think you are minimizing how bad this is. This is the government weaponizing social media, much like elon musk weaponized twitter. Only this time, the social media is directly owned by a fascist government regime. This is a massive massive conflict of interest which is going to 100% turn tik tok into a propaganda machine.
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Another interesting news! I'm blessed! Like they already do missinformation.
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