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Maybe this is a chance for the broader population to understand they shouldn't get attached to a free online service that can be shutdown for many reasons outsi
by phatfish 2y ago
Maybe this is a chance for the broader population to understand they shouldn't get attached to a free online service that can be shutdown for many reasons outside their control.
If you are an "influencer" build a following on multiple platforms.
If you are a business owner engage in marketing on multiple platforms.
If you need a video to tell you how to bake cupcakes or clean a kettle, learn to use Google.
If you are bored, learn to read.
- gdubs 2y agoThis is so flippant. I do read. And I've been online long enough to know that things disappear. I read slashdot in the hay day and was on Friendster, and MySpace. If Hacker News disappeared, people would be sad because it was a unique place. And others would say "just go on Reddit it's the same thing." And those people would be mistaking functionality for community. Yes, all things pass. But if you read what I said at the top, it's not that we should expect things to last forever. It's that people are flip about TikTok in part because they don't seem to have more than a surface level understanding of it — or a completely different idea of what it was than the people who really used it.