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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 months ago

Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine

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Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine

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Chris Remington@beehaw.orgM to Technology@beehaw.org · 2 months ago
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After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …
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    If that happens, what is the current alternative that everyone will migrate to?

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      There is Loops and Skylight.

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        I tried loops. Its not possible to post content. I sent a bug report and got no response

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          When did you last try it?

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            Maybe 3 months ago?

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              They released the 1.0.0 alpha 28 days ago.

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                I just checked again. There’s still no way to browse or upload videos. There’s a link in the lefthand navbar for “Videos” that just says “No videos found”

                But their is no button to upload. The website is useless.

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                  I think they expect people to use their mobile app

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                    That’s fucked. Don’t even have an MVP yet.

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      Some may use some work around to use the international version which will be free of us control.

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