TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture
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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.

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.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      22 days ago

      I downloaded it. It’s very barren right now, no more than a few comments per post, if any. Hopefully it gains some traction

      • TheMadCodger@piefed.socialEnglish
        41·
        22 days ago

        It was like that here when Reddit fell caused people to leave and look for something better. Give it time, and interact!

          • myserverisdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
            16·
            22 days ago

            I think its mostly because of lurkers, but also, I first joined on midwest.social then something broke the feed and caused a bunch of federation issues. Now this is my “alt” but I can’t see content from piracy@dbzero or whatever now

      • ReptileVessel@lemmy.zipEnglish
        19·
        22 days ago

        Think of it as an exclusive club where your content has a higher chance of being seen by elite users

      • John@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        22 days ago

        Kinda like fediverse in general. That’s the price of a non-corpo platform

      • M137@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 days ago

        I don’t see how few comments is a bad thing? Do you really sit and scroll through the vile idiocy that is tiktok comments? Nowhere does more comments etc. mean it’s better. If anything less people is good.

      • sqw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        0·
        22 days ago

        ive poked around on there over the past year or so. not much to see and often quite broken.

        • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          22 days ago

          what client do you use? it seems as if it even removed your own default upvote, maybe it’s the thing that is broken

          • sqw@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            0·
            22 days ago

            I always un-upvote myself. I tried the latest loops client, it’s way more performant than it used to be. id say the only thing i didnt like about it was the overlap in the feeds and the wrap-around feeds. if it’s out of content, it should just say so.

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      22 days ago

      It must be really demanding in terms of hardware and network to host video content like tiktok. I wonder if the fediverse voluntaries will be able to keep up with it if the userbase grows too much

    • emb@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      22 days ago

      Oof, this still isn’t up on F-Droid or either main app store. That’s a shame, I thought this moment would be a great time for Loops to get some user base, but it seems like it’s still not ready for wider adoption.

      That said, it does look a lot better now than it did a few months ago when I last tried it. Here’s hoping it picks up some momentum. I finally tried TikTok last year, and was really impressed by the breadth of videos and how quickly it was able to start showing me things I enjoyed. With the recent change in ownership, I don’t know that I’ll revisit it much if at all. Would take quite a lot to replicate even a little bit of the zeitgeist TikTok had going. But like with Lemmy and Mastodon/Bsky, I’m hoping I can do my little part by choosing where to put my attention. Just don’t know that I’m going to find much there I care to see, for now.