#i should not be on tiktok

[wishfulimaginings]

"Dain is out of breath while trying to get out of Montserrat. "

You say Shady.

I say Riders Survival Course (RSC).

Give the guy a break!

[thunderlina]

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

[44boora]

Frankenstan AU & corset piercings 🎀

[sergle]

Are you on southern men swing dancing together tiktok?? Huh??? Because I AM

[landminepeople]

i bet on losing dogs

[castielsprostate]

i hate you "influencers", i hate you tiktok, i hate you "content creators", i hate you "unalive" and "s€x" and "dr/ügs", i hate you instagram, i hate you consumerism, i hate you family friendly, i hate you puritans, i hate you facebook, i hate you family vloggers, i hate you violating other people's privacy, i hate you modern day social media

[fanaticalthings]

the muskification of twitter except it's lex luthor instead of elon lol

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[krscblw-2]

cav of the ninth 🗡️

[retquits]

masked torchbearer

[morganbritton132]

Eddie, posting to Tiktok: Why does Steve do a couples costume with his best friend and not me? Why don’t we do group costumes? Great questions.

Eddie: I married a man that got dumped so hard at a Halloween party that it changed the trajectory of his life.

Eddie: At that party? Wore a couples costume so he vowed never to wear a matching costume with the person he was dating. Which we’re not dating so-

Steve: We date! We go on dates. That’s dating!

Eddie: We’re married. I don’t think us dressing up as Bill and Ted is going to destroy a thirty year relationship.

Steve: You don’t know that.

Eddie, heavy sigh and then cheerful: Anyways, it works out better for me. Getting dumped on this day has made him incredibly horny every Halloween since.

Steve:

Steve: Don’t say that

Eddie: Notice how he didn’t say it wasn’t tr-

*video ends because Steve threw a pillow at Eddie and he dropped his phone in between the bed frame and the wall*

[sanjipussyindulgence]

[bookinit02]

i really do think there’s a huge disconnect on here w/ people who have never used tiktok as to what it actually is and who actually uses it. the number of people i’ve seen call it a “teen dancing app” is actually insane. it has not been a teen dancing app since i was in high school, around 2016 - 2020. the main communities i saw on a daily basis were 1) black history/anti-racism educators, 2) high school & college teachers sharing in-classroom strategies and frustrations with the education system, 3) local/state political leaders giving real-time updates on behind-the-scenes government decisions, & 4) community activism & leadership. like tiktok is an adult platform. almost every person i interacted with was my age or older. and yes it completely depends on your fyp and how you interact with the app, yes there’s still teenagers and dance videos and literally anything else you can think of. but these communities of adults aren’t insubstantial at all, they have literally millions of interactions on a daily basis. there’s about a million other types of communities that i could name just off the top of my head, because the range of users was SO diverse and thriving. it’s a long-distance community tool, just like any other social media—and honestly much better than any other social media, because it relies primarily on the kindness of strangers. i saw at least 5-10 videos today of queer people in rural areas panicking because they don’t have any access to queer community on any other platform or in real life. and before i end this i do want to say i think tiktok is coming back, i think this is a highly orchestrated political move, etc., but i do know it won’t ever be exactly the same. people are panicking about free speech violations because tiktok was a place where people fucking SPEAK. i have never seen mass mobilization and communication in this same way for as long as i’ve been alive. it is the people’s app, not just a silly teenage thing. if you’re not on tiktok and never have been, please stop talking about it like you know anything at all😭

[celestebeepy]

jay ferin enjoyers what up

various rambles abt this in tags teehee

[fluent-in-lesbianism]

Folks need to stay on RedNote and leave TikTok in the fucking dust bc how fucking funny would it be if Trump’s plan to propagand the youth absolutely failed bc folks found a better alternative where they get to do the same shit they did on TikTok but now in English and Mandarin

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Ik it's a bit early but I can't believe it's been almost one year since this post

Btw yeah its real