TikTok's daily average U.S. app uninstalls have increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared to the previous three months, Sensor Tower told CNBC.

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.

    • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      76·
      4 hours ago

      Tbh I learned a lot about other cultures through tiktok and recently the US have proven that no matter how much chest pounding about freedom they do, they can be just as authoritarian as any other, even ignoring the invasion of other countries, literally murdering their citizens in the streets and abusing women and minorities, so the app being owned by a Chinese company was not really as big of an issue as others have made it out to be.

      Now that ownership has changed, there’s an active suppression of american sensitive topics on the platform, so that’s already a visible downgrade.

      I wish someone more neutral could offer a real alternative that people would jump on.

      • bearboiblake@pawb.socialEnglish
        3·
        43 minutes ago

        mate… the US is by far the most evil country on the international stage, the whole china scare stuff was the US telling everyone what they’ve been doing to US-owned social media all along… this is nothing new or surprising, if you’re just now waking up to this reality I’m sorry you’ve been asleep for so long, but I’m sorry to let you know this is gonna get worse before it gets better. The only chance the US has of avoiding falling deeper into fascism is to have a socialist revolution.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
      101·
      5 hours ago

      Not surprising, since you’d need tp be willfully ignorant to have used tiktok when it first came out with all the privacy concerns even back then with the app doing weird things.

      And those who use it despite that are pretty addicted to the content on it. They in the same category as those that continue to use twitter.

  • oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    11 hours ago

    My siblings were debating issues with it and about how willing they were to just deal with it.

    I’m just shocked at how addicted everyone is to it that it could probably say “Trump is watching all users’ front cameras while the app is open” and kids would still be like "hmmm what are the odds he watches me though?

    But everybody’s a zombie.

    I mean I downloaded it, back really early, to take a peek. After 15 minutes, I decided I hated the short format, and peaced out.

    It seems to largely be a generational thing. Millennials are (in my perception) mostly on it just to make money, zoomers just want that crack IV drip.

    Obviously this is just a trend, and there are counter examples everywhere, but that seems to be more true than not. At least from the outside looking in.

    And given it’s totally obnoxious censorship rules, now I have to deal with hearing about people getting “unalived”, or “adult fun time”, and “p 3 dee oh” from creators that multistream. Even without being there, I’m forced to experience the cancer secondhand.

    That’s my main problem with it. None of the other problems affect me directly much since I’ve always avoided it, but that is smeared all over my shit.

  • lechekaflan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    10 hours ago

    Vine used to be so fun and simple.

    That was fucking eons ago.

    Its replacement has so many issues on many levels.

    • Gorilladrums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      9 hours ago

      That because Vine was designed to be fun and simple. Users only had 7 seconds to make a memorable video, and so people got really creative with it. You can’t possibly convey anything of value in such a short duration, so people just the platform for fun.

    • forkDestroyer@infosec.pubEnglish
      14·
      6 hours ago

      My life has only gotten worse since getting addicted to forums and social media. I’ve become much less productive as well. Feels bad :(

  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    52·
    13 hours ago

    1. Good

    2. It was the same brand of red fascism before and after. Algorithm and databases still in Beijing, a few days ago the backup on Oracle went online.

  • nexguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    562·
    15 hours ago

    We will see 100% of tiktok users uninstall. Even 200%, 300% 400% up to 500% and more including 600%. Percents like no one has seen.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      5 hours ago

      Are you not aware of the people who shit on facebook? I think most reddit and reddit to lemmy users hate Facebook.

      Head to pcgaming, pcmasterrace, steam deck subs and you’ll also see hate for Microsoft. Partly due to copilot, hate of online account being pushed, and being spyware.

      Same for Google too with them being seen as a company that is spying on everyone which is why roms like GrapheneOS gets brought up.

      Now usage is still high partly due to some people’s dependency on it for productivity, but criticism and hate is there. Even China and Russia is stuck using Microsoft among regular consumers despite them having the most reason to not trust US software.

    • Sahwa@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      unlike us here, people on feacesbook and instagram never sh*t on suckerberg?

  • skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish
    222·
    9 hours ago

    China was spying on me in case I had any useful state secrets. America is spying on me because they are actively exploiting every data point in my life for profit and control.

    • makingrain@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      9 hours ago

      Worse than spying - manipulating politics and social cohesion. Many teens have died (example: pass out challenge), right-wing governments have almost been elected out of nowhere (Romania) and mentally ill people have been preyed upon heavily.

    • Lfrith@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      5 hours ago

      I always thought those who believed their data was safe because the app was China based was dumb, since Google showed that they’d comply with the Chinese government to operate in the country years ago.

      So why would yet another billion dollar seeking app be different because of it being a different country when they are just as financially motivated to not protect your data but make money off you.

      • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
        21·
        5 hours ago

        Google showed that they’d comply with the Chinese government to operate in the country years ago.

        Google refused, as a consequence, are blocked by the Great Firewall. Microslop bent the knee and continues to operate until China gets an alternative going.

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    i deleted Tiktok years ago
    thank god people are deleting it (cause i remember it being Toxic and stuff)