How would you feel about it?
Let’s pretend lemmy just got a sick ass video hosting feature for this example.
I have no interest in short form video no matter how sick-ass. So I’d ignore it, and if that weren’t possible I’d leave.
Same, I just don’t want to watch videos of random people talking to their phone camera. It’s such a narcissistic “look at me” way to use social media that I can’t relate to it at all.
Videos are obnoxious
I would be skeptical that it wouldn’t become a dumpster fire overnight.
fair.
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no
Please tell me this fucking song got hit with the UMG pull
The song is owned by UMG, yes.
And finally, the world was at peace
I’d make heavy use of the block feature. Then probably leave eventually
“I’m too old for this shit.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
TikTok tends to appeal to younger users, as 41% of its users are between the ages of 16 and 24. As of 2021, these individuals are considered Generation Z.
Hmm. Yeah, I’m pretty confident that the average age range on the Fediverse is higher than on TikTok.
I’m 20 and already too old for tiktok
I’d probably jump ship. The dynamic that exists on TikTok is not something I have any interest in participating in. And that’s entirely putting aside the massive user privacy issues.
“What happened? Why does Lemmy suck now?”
“There goes the neighborhood.”
My first thought would be “why can’t I load Lemmy” as they DDOSed the site
Shy of that, “good for them.” Glad they wouldn’t choose anything worse 😉
“Goddamnit”
I’ll give it a week and they’ll be gone. Lemmy is not built for short-form content and very short attention spans, so the format won’t work for them.
I’d probably have to filter out the sudden influx of TikTok-like shorts, but I’d still be glad to have more people to connect with, and on a FOSS platform no less.
Everyone seems scared but I would be happy that such a FOSS designed project would finally be used in mass scale.
Sure content would not be the same, but the structure of lemmy would probably encourage more discussion and problem solving rather than hate induced comments or crazy mob-like behaviour.
When I talk about structure, I talk about some feature like having a downvote, not so much advertisement, the fediverse, no(or just not so much) incentive to make money from the platform, text based posts, custom front ends, etc…
Video hosting man …
There’s no hard limit on the number of people you can block in Lemmy (unlike the alien site which assumes only 1,000 assholes exist in the world). If the TikTok-ers mostly come from one instance, defederation would be swift. Barring that, I would just engineer a solution since my instance runs a lot of custom frontned/backend components already.
TL;DR: I’d notice it long enough to get annoyed, but it would be an easily solvable problem.
“Why is this not loading?” as inevitably nothing will load when the servers get 1000x the traffic they were expecting.
But assuming the servers would somehow handle it, it would be a huge boon to Lemmy. There are a lot of people here saying they would leave, but I think that’s stupid. The reason why I left Reddit was that the platform gave me the middle finger, it had nothing to do with the users. The same goes for TikTok, but this time the middle finger comes with a thousand prying eyes. On Lemmy, I could finally find communities in the niche hobbies that I like.
