Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/tiktok-shuts-down-app-for-all-u-s-users-with-a-popup-message-telling-users-president-trump-is-working-to-reinstate-the-app.1086288/page-10#post-134553963

User banned (1 month): sinophobic rhetoric

Yeah and that happened before the huge network effect made Instagram and Twitter unkillable. Just look at what X is today, and how its still very much alive.

Again, they couldve just regulated it. A ban is a move to kill any non-US owned social media.

It wasn't just "network effects," in Meta's case it was their google-like acquisition spree and targeting of certain elite groups of people. Twitter stayed relevant by in a similar way by getting a bunch of ridiculously famous people to post on it for a long time.

Many social networks have died in the past, they are not unkillable, it was smart consolidation that kept them on top and it'll be regulatory capture that keeps them there.

Calling it the 'CCP dancing app' is so out of touch lol

keep saying out of touch like it'll stick, lol, that app is going to be filled to the brim with pro-Trump shit if/when it comes back under his watch. Are you still gonna want to use it then?

So you seem to be on a bit of an aggro arc, but I wanted to just chime in that it seems that you fundamentally misunderstand the utility of TT's algorithm in helping small marginalized communities find each other in a way no other app does. Hence it's popularity. Over a hundred million people are having their digital 3rd space communities obliterated with this, and if you can't empathize with that, I don't know what to tell you.

I think small marginalized communities deserve a better "digital 3rd space community" than TikTok. I do not think running to a CCP-influenced app like a protection racket will work out well for anyone.

Deleted member 22472