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TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover
(www.theverge.com)
There is always Loops
You get to watch a couple of videos only without logging in. No search.
Yikes.
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Here's an idea. How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely, and stop rewarding them with excessive device permissions and personal data.
How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely
In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn't know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.
The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate'm!!!
Yeah, let's not do any of that shit either.
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Literally anything but FOSS, huh?
Out of the frying pan and into a cold frying pan.
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I tried it for an hour or so and it's absolutely filled with Nazis. One of them was criticizing Elon Musk and Trump for not being nazi enough. No thanks.
Oh come on. Another centralised social media service that could be compromised. Wtf is wrong with these people
They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn't have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.
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99% don't know what the Fediverse is. I can't blame them for jumping ship to Upscrolled since it's what they have heard of.
And me, living in the dark woods of Lemmy and Mastodon, have never, until now, heard of this 'upscrolled'. I really like my ignorance-laced way of life.
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I looked it up in the App store out of curiosity and holy crap that app almost as bad as TikTok for privacy. Though I suppose people jumping ship from TikTok aren't too concerned about data privacy or else they wouldn't have been using TikTok in the first place.
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Why would anyone use TikTok or any clone like that to begin with? Do they want their brain to rot?
Anything to get that dopamine drip from the Black Rectangle
See, White Rectangle, you swipe like this: "oh. oh quite. oh dear. oh no. aw. and how."
But with Black Rectangle, you swipe like: "yo, hol' da commentz, Imma bounce your pinky up in this!"
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41k new users in 4 days? Not too bad, but certainly not a mass exodus. Tiktok's user base is quite large, although I don't know the US specific user base size. It is a shame people don't choose better alternatives though.
Tiktok’s user base is quite large
875 million to over 950 million daily active users (DAU) globally as of Jan 2026.
It is a shame people don’t choose better alternatives though.
TikTok was the better alternative. That's half the joke. As soon as it caught on, the plutocrats stepped in and seized control
Not unlike how Facebook bought out and gutted Instagram or JP Morgan took over Reddit and cleaned out all the lefties before taking it public.
That's before you get into the marketing budget that social media needs to build the kind of massive userbase you're asking for.
Not federated. Nothing stops this app from getting worse in the future, right?
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Best app yet, but eventually that app is gonna get bought out just like TikTok and eventually it will get censored.
don't think the Palestinian owner will be keen on selling his social media to those who killed his family
Larry Ellison tool over Tiktok to stifle anti israel and pro Palestine voices and the NPCs thought it was all about China.
Told you so.
An Australian app, so you can say "Epstein" on this one but still not "stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine". At least the hate speech manager (for now) isn't an ex-IDF Zionist and the platform (for now) is not expressly pro-Israel / pro-genocide.
Isn't upscrolled created by a Palestinian? I doubt he'd be okay with censoring a genocide against his people.
How many quick short videos can one consume before they become tired of them? What is the bizarre appeal to that crap instead of actually doing something?
Yes I am typing here on Lemmy, you could make an argument, but damn you see ten short videos you have seen them all.
For me it's news snippets, recipe ideas, 3d print ideas, and short form comedy. I look at it maybe 15min daily. Sometimes days without. My wife probably does 2hrs a day (stay home mother, homeschool teacher, honored caregiver). For her it's the entertainment that can be quickly put down, little investment involved.
I can't imagine. I can get all of that elsewhere, video is such a slow delivery....
There is something just wrong with quick cuts and fast in your face stuff. I swear it's a simple dumbing down plus dopamine injection. It can't be good for you.
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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