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.
I’d just hope they all join a tiktok-specific instance so it’s easy enough to filter out. But it would be nice to see a larger adoption of the fediverse (although I feel like overnight growth of that scale might rock the boat too much, it would be far more preferable to have a more gradual adoption).
“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
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
Ah, Hell No.
I would find some other platform. Maybe back to forums, but I would miss a nice app for them.
“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.
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.
I’d make heavy use of the block feature. Then probably leave eventually
I would be skeptical that it wouldn’t become a dumpster fire overnight.
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 😉
The LGBTQ+ communities will be amazing!
Id be sad knowing that servers will probably crash
“There goes the neighborhood.”
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.