because there are no viable alternatives for large outreach.
TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm
10 months ago by chobeat to c/technology
usefulchickadee 2 points 10 months ago path: 0 18914405 18914530 18944308 18955900 18958003, hotness: undefined, score: 2, children: 5
Samsuma 2 points 10 months ago
The reality is that apps like TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, etc.. have marketing teams and entire institutions practically advocating for their use across the planet. In some parts of Asia and South America, you literally cannot get by without WhatsApp in more urbanized areas, for example.
This is the result of US imperialism. They have just enough data centers and server capacity to run hundreds of Instagrams if they wanted to, unlike the Global South (excl. China).
frozenspinach 2 points 10 months ago
Yes! Loops exists, which is a federated tiktok app. Doesn't have the same content or algo, but it has the infrastructure we all want.
angstylittlecatboy 1 point 10 months ago path: 0 18914405 18914530 18944308 18949198, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 0
onslaught545 10 points 10 months ago
If you want your movement or important information to reach a bunch of people, you need to go to a platform that has a bunch of people.
interdimensionalmeme 2 points 10 months ago
And compromise on purity ?
No way José
All my homies
are on I R C
LavaPlanet 3 points 10 months ago
Yeah and if you go on tiktok and search la music festivals or music festivals, it just shows you people saying protest coverage is now labelled this, they're still censoring the actual footage of the protests. And they're censoring different things for different countries.
HiddenLayer555 19 points 10 months ago
US libs: "PEOPLE IN COMMUNIST CHINA ARE FORCED TO USE SLANG WHEN TALKING ABOUT CHINESE ATROCITIES TO GET PAST CENSORSHIP!!"
Also US libs: "Unalive" "Music Festival" Bleeping out Palestine "This is fine and way better than communist China"
Also interesting how Tiktok only started doing this after they were forcibly sold off from the Chinese parent company and was forced to conform to "Western values" eh?
semperverus 0 points 10 months ago path: 0 18958440 19016360, hotness: undefined, score: 0, children: 0
Samsuma 4 points 10 months ago
do you really expect to be CC'd along with hundreds or thousands of others about ICE raids, never mind about literally any event involving injustice? And how about footage of said event? Where's that going to be stored? As an attachment? Google Drive link?
When censorship of one of its worst kind is unfolding in front of you, where genocide is referred to as "water slide", you instead blame the people for self-censoring? Get real.
usefulchickadee 1 point 10 months ago path: 0 18961263 18969834, hotness: undefined, score: 1, children: 1
chobeat 3 points 10 months ago
I don't use mastodon exactly because I don't want to put in the labor of figuring out what content to consume. I want to be in control of the logic, but the machine should be doing it. The fediverse fails because it thinks people who want control over their feed are fine with not putting in any labor at all, basically conceding to big platforms that the only way to customize a feed is in an exploitative, invasive way, which is obviously bullshit.
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People clearly realize that these algorithms are suppressing dissidents and freedom of speech. Why do they continue to subject themselves to these hacky workarounds and self-censorship?
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