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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

If they banned lemmy and reddit you would be freaking out too. The difference is many people run their businesses on tik tok. Your making fun of people who are losing their livelihood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Well, I'm freaking out a bit despite hating TikTok and believing it's harmful to the average user. I don't believe in censorship, and I think banning an app like this is a form of censorship.

That said, even if Lemmy and Reddit were banned, I would probably react similarly. I don't need Reddit or Lemmy and can do without, but I disagree very much with the censorship.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah. Lemmy is a software. Reddit is an entity. They could try to ban specific Lemmy servers. They've tried to go after torrent tracker sites with little to no success. This wouldn't be any different.

I think it's illuminating and hilarious that they're actually going through with this though. I've long made the statement that capitalists and Leninist are kissing cousins on all the worst possible fronts. And here's another data point.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol wut? I don't think you know what "leninist" means.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

There's what they claim to be and what they are. What they claim to be, is a transitional centralized system of government aimed at jump starting communism. What they are is that without a mechanism or plan to transition. Ending up in EVERY SINGLE GROUP that has tried devolving into an authoritarian suppressive system. Benefitting largely those at the top.

The Party heads in Moscow benefited far more than the average citizen of the Soviet Union. Nearly every modern Russian oligarch has a direct line that can be drawn back to former party leadership. Xi Jinping does not live in government block housing like a regular citizen. Nor do any of the families of top party members. And should a Chinese citizen complain. They will be brutally ostracized and excluded from society at best. Jailed for life or slaughtered if they're not so lucky. Capitalists salivate about being able to do that with impunity. They still do it. Just not with impunity yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How do you run a business on TikTok?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

They provide a shop front interface called TikTok Shop. It's something Meta has been wanting to do for awhile in WhatsApp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You use it to advertise and show off your items without having a actual shop. Tik Tok also has a shop you can buy from and you can list your items on there.

The closest thing I can think of that's similar to it would be Etsy but instead of having just pics of your products you can have short videos of it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

no, would just switch to 4chan. That's my last option, lol