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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:34

The TikTok ban will deplatform thousands of progressive content creators and skew online discourse to the right. It will consolidate media influence within right-leaning platforms like Meta and X. Over time, I believe this reconfiguration will permanently alter the political landscape of the creator economy https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:36

While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:37

TikTok also has more than double the concentration of news content creators who identify as LGBTQ+ or advocate for LGBTQ+ rights vs other platforms, and 73% of teens who identify as Democrats or lean left use TikTok, compared to 52% of teens who identify as Republican. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:38

With Meta and X outright embracing right wing ideology, and YouTube becoming increasingly saturated, progressive creators who found a haven on TikTok, now face the near impossible task of rebuilding their communities on platforms that are hostile to their content. Most will fail. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Descendants

Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:42

TikTok is also my biggest platform, if you want to support my work please buy a yearly subscription to UserMag.co, if it's not something you can afford please subscribe for free and/or share links!! Every little bit helps when you're up against an entire massive right wing media structure.

https://www.usermag.co/

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Written by Oliver on 2025-01-18 at 14:54

@taylorlorenz Amazon needs some people to work for it all information 👇👇👇https://higherincomejobs.netlify.app

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Written by Chris Ferguson on 2025-01-18 at 16:21

@taylorlorenz

You don't even bother to read and respond to people's replies here... It's not a great look to ask the audience you ignore to follow you somewhere else...

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Written by Rabbitt@mstdn.social on 2025-01-18 at 22:01

@taylorlorenz

I've never subscribed to TicToc and I don't view anything from that source. But I do read and share your articles on Mastodon. Encouraging more TicToc providers to migrate to federated servers (Mastodon) may be in the best interest for all.

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Written by Wiredfire on 2025-01-18 at 14:43

@taylorlorenz yet few seem to be learning the folly of leaping from monolith to monolith when open, federated, alternatives are out there that hugely insulate them from these challenges!

Buuuuuut you can’t get rich by posting a thumbnail of yourself pulling a stupid face on fedi so let’s face it, it’s about money much more than creativity.

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Written by Maggie Maybe on 2025-01-18 at 14:57

@wiredfire @taylorlorenz yep and trying to appeal to the lawmakers by telling them that this means creators are going to lose income isn’t helpful because that’s why they want to do it. They don’t want people to be able to generate income that doesn’t involve punching a clock and working for a boss.

But it’s obviously not about security and China bad if everyone can just go use red note

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Written by Crumbs the Cat on 2025-01-18 at 15:46

@maggiejk @wiredfire @taylorlorenz but doesn’t this whole mess just drive home the reality that the people on these megaplatforns—creators and consumers—are just digital serfs anyway, only bound by network effects and the addictive properties of the algorithm rather than by feudal law? They are creating value for a massive corporation that has rendered them so completely dependent that the idea of switching platforms is tantamount to apocalypse.

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Written by Rob Lisenko on 2025-01-18 at 14:43

@taylorlorenz If the sole way Progressives can get audiences is feeding a Lumen style algorithym of TikTok a la Severance, I'd suggest Progressives need to try a little harder.

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Written by Tom_Huth on 2025-01-18 at 15:18

@taylorlorenz That’s why I simple ignore these platforms and even don’t try to find another heaven. I stay on mastodon, some interesting people are here too. Fine for me and that’s it.

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Written by Joachim Ziebs on 2025-01-18 at 16:57

@taylorlorenz Why don't they embrace the Fediverse instead of moving to another monolithic platform?

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Written by vampirdaddy on 2025-01-21 at 18:48

@taylorlorenz

Pro-Tipp:

POSSE = Post on Own Site, Syndicate to Elsewhere

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

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