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AzulMage2020 t1_j6igbtz wrote

Its amazing . The current crop of advantaged. spoiled, propped up by marketing , "entrepreneurial leaders" have ruined it for at least one generation of their peers by being so inept and obtuse that they completely destroyed the paper thin veil of intellectual superiority they cloak themselves with to maintain the façade of a fair playing field. It will be interesting to see what new concepts are used to conceal blatant oligarchy and nepotism for the short term.

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neolobe t1_j6iga5o wrote

The big US tech companies have lobbyists working on politicians and using the privacy as a smoke screen.

The true issue is not privacy. The true issue is TikTok is eating these other companies for lunch. It's newer, it's fresher, it has more active users. Youtube, Facebook, and Insta have blatant short-format ripoffs of Tiktok on their sites trying to stay relevant. And their versions with such low-level content are an embarrassment. People actually make content for TikTok. FB and YT just rip it off. TikTok is a major player in the entertainment industries now.

That is the true issue.

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kanaleins t1_j6iflmy wrote

Just joined, I’ve never went through a more complex setup process in my life. I had to go to an e-mail provider, then find a username, signup on that 3rd party website, then find yet another 3rd party app for my platform, then find that 3rd party server in the app, and now I can’t find anybody to write e-mails to. One server has 10,000 people, another 50,000, another 2000, another 500,000, etc. All these different servers and apps to choose from makes no sense. If it’s this confusing for a developer, how to do they expect users to join without going through the headache I just went through?

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