#leavingtiktok — Public Fediverse posts

CNBC: A ‘quiet revolution’: Why young people are swapping social media for lunch dates, vinyl records and brick phones. “When I discovered the trend, I decided to post on LinkedIn to see if there were any young people willing to speak to me about going offline. To my surprise, I received nearly 100 responses from Gen Z and millennials sharing stories about social media detoxes and digital […]

Tubefilter: UpScrolled wants to be a more open version of TikTok. Can it sustain its current momentum?. “The app hit #1 on the U.S. download charts while taking its user base above one million. Only a few weeks prior, UpScrolled had been sitting at about 40,000 users. The sudden increase in activity has been big enough to temporarily take down UpScrolled’s servers, though the app has pledged […]

Mashable: TikTok users flock to UpScrolled in response to new U.S. owners. “TikTok competitor UpScrolled has surged up Apple’s App Store rankings after users began turning to the new platform en masse. According to social media sentiment, many are on the hunt for alternatives to TikTok after new U.S. owners were officially instated this week, with expected algorithm changes raising questions […]

CNBC: TikTok users are deleting the app, with removals up 150% following U.S. joint venture. “TikTok users have been deleting the app at a higher rate since the company announced that its U.S. operations would be housed in a new joint venture. The daily average of U.S. users deleting the TikTok app has increased nearly 150% over the past five days compared with the previous three months, market […]