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dmonitor | on: TikTok goes dark in the US
there are a decent number of people who make money and market their business on tiktok. those people are probably concerned about their future
tivert | parent | next
> those people are probably concerned about their future

As they should be, because they stupidly made their lives dependent on a single platform that anyone with a brain could see was likely to run into trouble sooner rather than later.

The lesson for the is: don't put your eggs in one basket.

sethammons | root | parent
Your response is very unempathetic. I am not a "content creator," and hn is the closest thing I use to social media, until TikTok a year or more ago. I won't be following anyone anywhere; I'm not on those platforms.

I listened to the final, farewell videos of several people. Some have leveraged TikTok on other platforms, but for a great many, TikTok was the only platform that let them reach an audience.

TikTok was eating the competition because it was simply better at matching content. It is a completely different beast in that regard.

Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human.

tivert | root | parent
> Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human.

I'm not calling them stupid for that, I'm calling them stupid because they didn't have a back up plan. Public policy should revolve around what they need or want (e.g. I'm sure some farmer somewhere could make a sob story video about how growing opium poppy has been so good for them, so heroin shouldn't be banned, but it's not about him).

kelvinjps10 | parent | next
They only care about the userbase they will just start publishing to whichever platform users choose
popcalc | parent
They had an entire year to prepare.