I wish this was the case but the average user is uninformed and can’t be bothered leaving.

Otherwise the bigger service would be lemmy, not reddit.

the market of the fediverse will balance itself out to what the users want.

Just like classical macroeconomics, you make the deadly (false) assumption that users are rational and will make the choice that’s best for them.

Really?

I mean I understand whatsapp has E2E encryption but they sell all your metadata and account data and stuff dont they. Does telegram do worse?

I don’t know. I’m having a much better time getting friends to move to telegram than signal.

I prefer signal, but they all seem to prefer telegram as an alternative.

Not everyone can afford a laptop or a computer and torrenting is a pain in this ass on a phone with low storage.

What?

You do realise the far right is explicitly using tiktok and has been extremely successful there. They have awful nazi shit on it. Just the algorithm doesn’t shove it in your face if you’re a leftist à la Musk.

I’m going to give you a five star review to balance it. (Swiss app store)

Its open source. It can’t be deleted.

Yes, big companies have lobbying which makes rules basically horrible for small companies.

The Megacorps don’t mind “red tape” because all they have to do is hire a lawyer and bribe the right people but small companies suffer the actual consequences.

Ie. In the country I live in, if I want to sell chicken eggs from my backyard chickens, I need to submit 3 forms that are basically impossible to without hiring a lawyer every YEAR, and pay for an inspection check every 2 years which costs a lot. That kind of environment which applies to basically any action a company wants to do makes it impossible for anyone but mid-large companies to do things.

If the law was well made, it wouldn’t applly to websites under a certain threshold of active users.

I mean you can’t expect octopusforums.co with 40 cephalopod enthusiasts to ID check australians can you.

I think a mastodon instance started asking aussies to send a pic of them with a bottle of vodka or a pack of smokes.

@shadow@lemmy.ca

potential bot account. Probably best to check?

Instagram is like 15 different things at once.

Its a messaging service with a TikTok like video service and a pixelfed like photo sharing service.

The TikTok ban law also applies to other apps owned by TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance, like Lemon8. ByteDance could be betting that regulators and app store companies are so focused on TikTok that they won’t pay attention to its other apps

If this actually happens it’ll be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.