How would you feel about it?

Let’s pretend lemmy just got a sick ass video hosting feature for this example.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      10 个月前

      Same, I just don’t want to watch videos of random people talking to their phone camera. It’s such a narcissistic “look at me” way to use social media that I can’t relate to it at all.

    • tal@lemmy.today
      2·
      10 个月前

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok

      TikTok tends to appeal to younger users, as 41% of its users are between the ages of 16 and 24. As of 2021, these individuals are considered Generation Z.

      Hmm. Yeah, I’m pretty confident that the average age range on the Fediverse is higher than on TikTok.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    10 个月前

    I’d probably jump ship. The dynamic that exists on TikTok is not something I have any interest in participating in. And that’s entirely putting aside the massive user privacy issues.

  • anarchost@lemm.ee
    8·
    10 个月前

    My first thought would be “why can’t I load Lemmy” as they DDOSed the site

    Shy of that, “good for them.” Glad they wouldn’t choose anything worse 😉

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    10 个月前

    I’ll give it a week and they’ll be gone. Lemmy is not built for short-form content and very short attention spans, so the format won’t work for them.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    7·
    10 个月前

    I’d probably have to filter out the sudden influx of TikTok-like shorts, but I’d still be glad to have more people to connect with, and on a FOSS platform no less.

  • ViscloReader@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 个月前

    Everyone seems scared but I would be happy that such a FOSS designed project would finally be used in mass scale.

    Sure content would not be the same, but the structure of lemmy would probably encourage more discussion and problem solving rather than hate induced comments or crazy mob-like behaviour.

    When I talk about structure, I talk about some feature like having a downvote, not so much advertisement, the fediverse, no(or just not so much) incentive to make money from the platform, text based posts, custom front ends, etc…

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    6·
    10 个月前

    There’s no hard limit on the number of people you can block in Lemmy (unlike the alien site which assumes only 1,000 assholes exist in the world). If the TikTok-ers mostly come from one instance, defederation would be swift. Barring that, I would just engineer a solution since my instance runs a lot of custom frontned/backend components already.

    TL;DR: I’d notice it long enough to get annoyed, but it would be an easily solvable problem.