TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by giancarlostoro on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @10:43AM (#42712212)

I'm in favor of letting people pay for their own smaller instances, like something Facebook esque, and you can invite all your relatives. They can join your instance. But someone (or maybe its a group effort) has to pay for it. Zero ads, just friends and family.

I've thought about this a lot.

I don't think I'll ever build it (I have another idea in the works consuming all my time), but I'll go a step further and share my other thought on it:

The less they use it, the less they should pay for using it. So if your goal is to keep up with relatives via sharing photos / videos, you can do that, and bug right out. So now there's a financial incentive to use it less, but it serves its purpose, like email.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by philote on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:05AM (#42712608)

Smaller instance can become big. Say you set up a small instance and invite your family. Then family members want to invite their family, or friends, or whomever. How do you manage that?

I think the answer is what we see with Mastodon, etc. and that's federated/distributed social networks.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by tmpz22 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:17PM (#42713851)

A restaurant can become big. Say you have a food critic showcase your restaurant and hundreds of people show up. How could we possibly deal with this problem without the aid of the smartest, most amazing, totally really smart, awesome at leet code, software engineers?

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by nprateem on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:03AM (#42712559)

This won't help with the dopamine craving. Most peoples' actual friends can't produce enough content.

The sooner we treat it as an addiction the faster we'll think of treatments.

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