President Trump delays TikTok ban for third time, giving 90 days for a deal to be struck with American owner. @AssociatedPress reports:
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Most viewed Filipino celebrity on #TikTok, BINI
#Bini 50 billion views
#ViceGanda 20.1
#KathrynBernardo 12.9
#BiniMikha 12.6
#SB19 12.5
#FrancineDiaz 10.2
#DanielPadilla & #BelleMariano 9.8
#DonnyPangilinan 9.5
#AndreaBrillantes 8.4
Loops Studio is built for creators, allowing you to upload new content, review and manage your posts, comments and interactions as well as view analytics!
It just one aspect of the platform that will soon launch with federation support and easy self-hosting.
Follow @loops for updates, or join https://loops.video to be one of the first to experience this 🚀
#loops #loopsStudio #tikTok #fediverse #activityPub #shortVideoSharing
,,Hakendran,, trackt #Gerichtsverfahren gegen #BigTech #Google #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok 👨⚖️👨⚖️
The Big Tech Lobby Playbook
How Big Tech’s power has rewritten digital rules globally
https://www.somo.nl/big-tech-lobby-playbook/
Big Tech giants have developed a powerful playbook to shape laws and politics in their favour, all around the world.
Our Big Tech Lobby Playbook series explores their tools and strategies through 6 case studies from Australia, Brazil, India, the EU, Kenya and the US.
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#BigTech #SocialMedia #Lobby #Meta #X #Facebook #Instagram #TikTok #LeaveX #SaveSocial
Loops is the ethical TikTok alternative the fediverse needs.
Unique safety features, mental health protections, and user controls you've never seen before.
Open source launch coming later this month - and you'll see why we took the time to get this right ✨
Wrote and published a blog post last night on why I finally decided to delete my TikTok account 👀😃
#blog #tiktok #socialMedia #tech #writing
https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/first-step-to-freedom-deleting-tiktok/
When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, Tori White saw an opportunity.
On the latest Dot Social, @mike sits down with Skylight Social's CEO to talk about building a creator-first video platform on the AT Protocol. Watch the episode here, or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
https://flipboard.video/w/c9tgxs6U6WonWJwAXYh9vH
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ATProto #ATmosphereConf #Skylight #TikTok
European Researchers Say Big Tech Is Blocking Access to Their Data
despite being legally entitled to obtain platform data under EU law, researchers face obstacles, obfuscation, and, in some cases, court battles to obtain it.
#EU #DSA #data #research #socialmedia #tiktok #twitter #meta #technolgy #tech
I’m watching this mass #TikTok uninstallation with great interest, partially because I’m looking forward to seeing what venture backed app people will flock to next. To be fair, I used to do the very same thing and never really looked into how horrible anything venture backed anything. was until I actually looked into better alternatives based off a crumb that was left on the mainstream platform I happen to use at the time so I don’t know what the correct solution is, but it is fascinating to watch happen over and over again. I wanted better. I just didn’t know where to go or what to try. I did try looking up alternatives, but absolutely none of the alternatives mentioned were anything close to things like the IndieWeb or Mastodon, etc. there are millions of others that are perfectly fine, not happy, but an accepted fine, with the abuse that mainstream tech does to it’s users. As much as I hate mainstream places, there needs to be breadcrumbs left for those that are like me and are looking for something more but don’t know where to look or what to look for until they find it. #Tech #Technology