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TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The most obvious example is the TikTok Shop. The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits. The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular content and turn every single video into an ad.

Then there’s the videos themselves. In a bid to compete with YouTube, TikTok is reportedly preparing to allow users to post 30-minute videos and prompting creators to upload horizontal content instead of the app’s standard vertical format. TikTok is even encouraging people to upload photo slideshows instead of videos altogether. On top of that, TikTok just fumbled a relationship with Universal Music Group, which pulled its music catalog off the platform and silenced any video featuring Taylor Swift, the Weeknd, and every other Universal artist.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (6 children)

So it Twitter, but people still suck Elon's Dick, Reddit pretty much told people to go fuck themselves, Facebook has been a shit show for over a decade. So I won't hold my breath.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I think a big difference, though, is that there is political force to ending TikTok. The US government has no major issues with Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, etc. existing. Remember, there's actual legislation banning TikTok. Whether that makes a real difference or not, well, I guess we just wait and see. Personally, I think they all should go down in flames.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What's the actual argument behind banning TikTok though? IMO it's just so that US firms remain the monopoly in the social media market.

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

Like @[email protected] said, it's on government phones. The thinking goes that TikTok, which is a Chinese company, is exporting too much data from US government devices. In other words, the government is worried the Chinese are spying. Given the amount of data that the TikTok app actually collects, the fear is probably not unreasonable. All corporate-owned social media collects way too much data, but TikTok really is next level from what I've read.

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