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I'm pretty much using TikTok and Lemmy. Lemmy because of ability to have filters and accessibility options. TikTok for the same reason plus much more likely to get videos of creators who are not all about money grabbing and care about LGBTQIA and nerodivergent people genuinely. Haven't found any other app that does that.
Hm, what an interesting combo. Using both the open and community-empowered Lemmy and the china-controlled ad-driven Tiktok. A combination I haven't seen yet!
Hosting video material is pretty expensive I guess...
Do you find that Tiktok attracts more neurodivergent and queer people than Lemmy? Perhaps consider switching instances? I do understand the convenience of video content though.
I have seen all kinds of people use Tiktok for many different purposes.
My brother uses it like the average zoomer, for the funi fortnite dances,
omg rofl he said the thingposts and honiposts. (he's 13)My father uses it for tips and tricks on stuff. Most posts he gets recommended don't seem bad at all. Of course it's the people who make the platform great, not the owners.
China ad driven as apposed to American ad driven. Same thing different countries so honestly regardless of which one I choose I get a ad riddled country made product. Lemmy and instances only have so much people And usually centered around america. I like TikTok because I get people who are not just American but other demographics and I get to learn about there life's and culture first hand through them without the annoyance of America giga corporation silencing them. Yes TikTok does to a degree but from my experience it's easier to find genuine people on TikTok then any other platforms.
That's why it attracts more nerodivergent people and LGBTQIA people in my own opinion is because you can be yourself and would get insta banned for certain subjects which I won't say here.
I'm not going blindly into TikTok. I know there's a lot of problems with it, idk why "China" always have to come up though, besides racism and propaganda.
Lemmy and mastodon had always seems to always be so. Just. Not accepting as much and lots of propaganda seems to be on here which is really fucking annoying andy instance ban list and lust of banned words is extensive here because of it. Feels like old reddit where there wasn't corporate bullshit just a lot of assholes and lots of good people but hard to tell which is which.
Also for assholes who will want to argue with me, belittle be or whatever. I'll just ban your username on my end so I never have to see you again.
hey woah there why are you using evil speech now, did I say something wrong? The only reason I mentioned china was cuz I wanted to differentiate between cool foss community driven thing and evil cooperate state driven thing.
I wasn't trying to make china seem bad, it just was the case that they have some influence. To me, it's really just the propaganda part and potential censorship, but that's it.
The thing with Lemmy I do understand. Then again, there are other instances which are have less or even no censorship.
If I said something else which made you mad, please tell me what it was. I'm not the best with picking up on this stuff.