this post was submitted on 15 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope tiktok bans US users to avoid a sale.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’d be fine with that. Hopefully it means grandma stops sending me “funny videos”.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

The "funny videos" will continue on Facebook until morale improves

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I find the funny videos being sent endearing almost as much as they are relentless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I read this as grandma sending you “furry videos” the first time. I was like what?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds a lot like what someone else just did recently…🤔

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Let that toilet bowl in.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

"former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, reality show host Kevin O’Leary, and now Frank McCourt"

What a cast of characters wanting to swoop in an buy this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Not sure what buying a short form video platform has to do with creating a new internet dedicated to privacy and open protocols, but cool? Maybe he just wants the user base

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wild how the most left leaning social media sights somehow keep ending up in the targets of unimaginably wealthy people who stand to lose a lot from simply making the economy fair. Im sure giving the control of information flow to them will be so much better.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope he spends billions on it only to resell it for millions after the internet moves on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Internet can't even move on from Twitter and it's practically radioactive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Utopia from dystopia. 🤔