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 daily average of U.S. users deleting the TikTok app has increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC.
Some users took to social media to voice their skepticism about the new joint venture after being prompted to agree to an updated privacy policy on Thursday.
UpScrolled looks like a promising alternative.
Another proprietary, singularly-owned platform vulnerable to hostile takeovers by wealthy propagandists?
I really hope Dansup is still putting in some work on Loops. This would really be a great time.
As a loops user, I find it a decent alternative to TicToc. It just doesn’t have that much content on it as compared to TicToc.
It’s also lacking in a lot of features used heavily on TT, such as a library of popular music to use without risk of copyright infringement. TT and YT have the resources to license that material, but that kind of feature will likely never make it to a fedi platform. Dansup really needs to figure this out, as it’s a bit of a “killer feature” that Loops is missing and has no solution for.
We already have an alternative, and its on the fediverse. Its called loops and it doesn’t include proprietary garbage.