I go where the relevant content is. I clearly don’t mind using alternative social media like Lemmy, but tiktok has great creators and indie music that I wouldn’t be exposed to anywhere else.
I use multiple social networks to prevent bias with adblockers to limit how much money they make.
As someone who used tiktok when he was a meme with the French song, it was a blatant action done against him. They (shadow) banned all the tiktok accounts making edits of him, they modified search results to put the official new sources relating to him at the top, hiding the user-generated content. Note, they did the same thing during the California wildfires to show only verified account videos to hide misinformation.
I think Tate is a grifter, but we really shouldn’t let governments or big tech companies to artificially hide content because someone is a controversial figure.
You currently cannot search ‘hitler’ on tiktok at all. It’s all a slippery slope that led to age verification, chat control, etc.
the dotcom bust was much worse