Update: TikTok appears to be back to full functionality BE VERY WARY OF THIS RESTORATION #tiktok - ThreadSky

razorbladecactus.bsky.social • 101 days ago

Update: TikTok appears to be back to full functionality

BE VERY WARY OF THIS RESTORATION

#tiktok

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thesatyr79.bsky.social•101 days ago

It's still not functional for me. 🤔

anherron.bsky.social•101 days ago

My gut says not to trust it. Not going back.

simonearth.bsky.social•101 days ago

broke the social contract while probably also legal ones

rozewished.bsky.social•101 days ago

It’s almost like this was their plan all along. Very sus

angelicaelle.bsky.social•101 days ago

You can’t get it in the Apple App Store still.

ventinganxiety.bsky.social•101 days ago

Something’s definitely off

susannahcross.bsky.social•101 days ago

I deleted it last night. I knew it was never going to be the same and, most likely,even less safe

sarabellssweets.bsky.social•101 days ago

I heard it was but still haven't opened it. Something in my gut has me apprehensive, weirdly. 🤷‍♀️

rollbohl.bsky.social•101 days ago

in the clurb we all sus

i-gvf.bsky.social•101 days ago

I hope that data funnel redirection is in place.

arxium.us•101 days ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjde3p0rnjgo

arxium.us•101 days ago

I don’t trust it long term but it will at least give the community a few more days to organize and find a new home.

arxium.us•101 days ago

With what people have shared about the Facebook account linking, I fully expect Zuck to get his greasy little hands on a piece of it.

azzyandherbooks.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yeaaaahhh, not jumping back on that bandwagon I don't think. Too many Rumpsters have their hand in the inner workings of TT now and I'm not okay with that.

taimarie29.bsky.social•101 days ago

Sadly I uninstall TikTok cause I thought it was done lol...now I can't install again

hepaticas.bsky.social•100 days ago

The app is super weird now. I am Swede but I can notice a visceral difference.

I tried to test the algorithm and commented, free the Mario brother 🍄, but I got flagged. And the comment was removed in less then a minute

squirrellygig84.bsky.social•101 days ago

I'm not re-downloading it for quite a while.

goodonepapa.bsky.social•101 days ago

With an all new propaganda algorithm!

eilmck.bsky.social•101 days ago

With a big thank you to the orange menace...

britt2019.bsky.social•101 days ago

I cannot get into mine. It’s just shows me nothing but my kids have it back..

britt2019.bsky.social•101 days ago

Just got back into it

errineli.bsky.social•101 days ago

I don’t either.

likelybug.bsky.social•101 days ago

Might be slowly coming back. I couldn’t see anything 20 min ago but can now. Not sure we should trust it though. Feels weird.

nottaylor.bsky.social•101 days ago

I tried deleting my account, but I can't because I need to log into my now deleted FB account. 😭 Guess I'll have to settle for just deleting the app.

gzilla777.bsky.social•101 days ago

Ohh there you are

rottipapa.bsky.social•101 days ago

Probably set up for easy hacking

badgerf87.bsky.social•101 days ago

i called this, word for word, earlier today. https://bsky.app/profile/badgerf87.bsky.social/post/3lg4ggawa2c2j

jon-eisenberg.bsky.social•101 days ago

They took #TikTok down and put it back up for a reason. One was messaging. The other might be code changes.

jen-notjenny.bsky.social•101 days ago

You can no longer download it, but it's up and running. Yeah, we're not touching that.

thechaoticdivine.bsky.social•101 days ago

Is this real life

annamiracle.bsky.social•101 days ago

What efforts did that man do? Lmao last I heard he wanted nothing to do with the app and wanted it banned.

mochamoni.bsky.social•101 days ago

Done with it. Another app killed by the right.

cocomalca.bsky.social•101 days ago

I’m not going back to tic tok I’m good ✊🏽

clevershut-in.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yup, we'll have to do this all over again in 90 days.

fabulous-firefly.bsky.social•101 days ago

Look at this bs

clairebear90.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yea did not like seeing that pop up

mattsec.bsky.social•101 days ago

I don’t expect anything to be different right away. I expect a gradual shift in algorithmic preferences to happen over the next 3-6 months to prioritizing certain narratives and suppressing others. Proceed accordingly I guess.

adhyperdad.bsky.social•101 days ago

Not to mention "consequences" for criticisms or mocking of certain individuals critical to the Current American regime.

lunaiswarped.bsky.social•101 days ago

So, a friend confirmed my account is still there. But I’m 100% locked out of it!!!

adhyperdad.bsky.social•101 days ago

Woooow

lunaiswarped.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yuuuuup 🙃

lunaiswarped.bsky.social•101 days ago

I got mad at deleted the app last night, tried to log in on safari and it keeps telling me that my password is wrong and that my phone number & email aren’t verified to be able to reset my password. I think my account was deleted due to my heavy political criticism 😵‍💫

cr00kedhal0.bsky.social•101 days ago

I doubt it’s the end of the bs sadly. 🇨🇦

andy-hardy.bsky.social•101 days ago

I’m just uploading videos of Noam Chomsky seems appropriate rn tbh.

steviecb89101112.bsky.social•101 days ago

Anyone else think musty musk is gonna buy it? I don't trust it now. Biden didn't want us to have it and left it to Donald dump. I feel so bad for the people using it for business and income. I wonder how many people that is? Will dump say that biden signed a bill that extinguished those jobs?

ultimatenerd800.bsky.social•101 days ago

No because byte dance won't sell, why do people keep forgetting this smh

steviecb89101112.bsky.social•101 days ago

Well good I hope they stand their ground. Still feel bad for the business people tho

calyps09.bsky.social•101 days ago

It’s not even majority Chinese-owned. Like 5 of the 9 major investment groups involved are American and 60% of the company is owned by foreign investors.

deliabryson1.bsky.social•101 days ago

yes we are being censored. search trump/hilter or Hitler in the search bar and watch what happens. All post comparing trump to hilter are gone. All the ones I saved and didn't have to time to download and now a lot of ones I heart or tabbed are showing grey broken

ladyperegrine.bsky.social•101 days ago

I deleted it and don’t really want to use it.

bluebonnet-cosplay.bsky.social•101 days ago

I'm super skeptical about this... all of it...

hissun.bsky.social•101 days ago

I refuse to go back now. It's no longer safe. I'd rather use Neptune.

yesseniabutno.bsky.social•101 days ago

I fully believe Meta has some stake in Tik Tok now. I still cannot access mine and permanently deleted my meta apps. If Meta is involved with Tik Tok I will not go back.

permacultist.bsky.social•100 days ago

💯

ultimatenerd800.bsky.social•101 days ago

Until I see an article about it that confirms it I don't believe it, it's just speculation

katiebaybee.bsky.social•101 days ago

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/19/tech/tiktok-ban

annamiracle.bsky.social•101 days ago

I no longer trust media or any news outlets ( not like I ever have) do we really know the truth about what these "News Companies " are telling us?

katiebaybee.bsky.social•101 days ago

And I am 100% with you on this. It is impossible for a president to do what he has done. And to put a decision on hold like he has, has never been done before. If something smells like 💩, it is more than likely 💩. I tried to redownload to delete and was not able to, which scared me even more.

annamiracle.bsky.social•101 days ago

What bugs me the most is what is the end game of our political system. What is it they are trying to scare us into that they need control so badly. That they on all sides are willing to go against the constitution.

2ghost.bsky.social•101 days ago

I can’t even get it in the App Store

and1raven.bsky.social•101 days ago

Nobody tell Tom Cotton.

goldmedalninja.bsky.social•101 days ago

It’s not back in the App Store. I deleted the app last night so when I went to look it wasn’t there

introvert81.bsky.social•101 days ago

I was reading comments to see if anyone else’s app got deleted. Mine is back but my son’s is gone. He didn’t delete the app, it’s just gone. I shared it but he can’t download load because “it’s not available in the region “. It’s weird because we do the family sharing.

screenwriter36.bsky.social•101 days ago

Nope. Not yet

bstrutin.bsky.social•101 days ago

Can’t download it from the App Store though. 🤔

detower.bsky.social•101 days ago

Im unable to reinstall it, I feel that it is a sign

flameoftarvalon.bsky.social•101 days ago

The stores probably aren't going to run the risk of allowing access until after an official order is issued.

adriels90.bsky.social•101 days ago

It doesn’t feel the same, feels very off. I think it’s sold to Meta, and I might just stick to the rednote app.

archaictorment.bsky.social•100 days ago

Easy, just dont use it.

maramay.be•101 days ago

The FIRST video in my feed was Charlie Kirk watching them take down the Biden portrait. They could at least be less blatantly obvious about it.

falconcat.bsky.social•101 days ago

I signed out of all my Meta apps. I will not be going back.

eicol.bsky.social•101 days ago

Meta tracks so much that signing out doesn't do much. You've got to delete it.

washoesfriend.bsky.social•101 days ago

We tried deleting my husband's acct years ago. It never went away.

laislamellama.bsky.social•101 days ago

😮

katiebaybee.bsky.social•101 days ago

I tried to redownload it to delete my account. And it is not available in the App Store.

Please do not trust this.

thagingerhasasoul.bsky.social•101 days ago

Agreed, this seems like a stunt to prove they could and to look like the saviors. Notice that Biden saying no enforcement for 36 hours didn't keep it up, but Trump's word before he's even sworn in brought it back and his name is plastered everywhere as the one who saved it.

meowl-damiana.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yes!! I had someone in here earlier dogging on me because I mentioned Biden saying he wouldn't enforce the ban and they were just... derogatory. Can't find the comment, now, but would love to ask them why Bidens word wasn't good enough, but Trump's is...

thagingerhasasoul.bsky.social•101 days ago

I'm sorry that someone was rude. The best argument I've heard is that Biden saying he wouldn't enforce it doesn't mean it isn't against the law and that the incoming administration could choose to retroactively prosecute TikTok for breaking the law by offering the app during the ban.

lucidparadigm420.bsky.social•101 days ago

I just wanna say this one place and then I'll STFU; I play online games, when a major update comes to a region- things are down for that region for hours. Idk if that's what happened, my app didn't update, but I'm sceptical about returning to TT after I saw that "Thanks to Rump" thing...

hobbitwitch.bsky.social•101 days ago

That’s exactly what so many people were saying would happen. It’s sus as hell.

breespresso.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yall wild for trusting that Frankentok App

silverheartdem.bsky.social•101 days ago

It’s going to be state run media.

generalcommentator.bsky.social•101 days ago

It is alright. Musk already bought it.

this-little-piggie.bsky.social•101 days ago

Don't show them you're ok with what happened. Complacency breeds compliance! Do not give in simply because they GRANTED YOU PERMISSION to use an app that was already given to you for free use in the past.

airjds.bsky.social•101 days ago

It was all a political scheme 😂 deleted and deactivated once I saw that message on the app

celestine-night.bsky.social•101 days ago

Im refusing to go back

fake-you-out.bsky.social•101 days ago

I deleted it there’s no way it’s gonna be stealing my data LESS now.

defiance4ever.bsky.social•101 days ago

This isn’t a good thing

tek2674.bsky.social•101 days ago

The livestreams don’t work and a few other weird differences, you don’t see notifications while scrolling you have to click it to see alerts now.

commonsensesally.bsky.social•101 days ago

It’s not available on the Apple App Store

nylitgirl.bsky.social•101 days ago

keeping my distance. something is off

hobbitwitch.bsky.social•101 days ago

Same. I opened the app just to see that gross “welcome” for myself and then shut it right back down.

mercurialsammii.bsky.social•101 days ago

As soon as me and my partner opened tt we received scam texts. Something is up and we both deleted our accounts.

moonchelemi.bsky.social•101 days ago

I used to get those all the time with Meta apps. Deleted Meta and they stopped. I really hope Zuckerberg didn't get his way but one of the billionaires did. It was nice while it lasted.

thefanaticofzelda.bsky.social•101 days ago

TikTok is seemingly back…I am very suspicious. My conspiracy theory is that Meta and X didn’t get the resurgence they wanted, so they told Trump to make that shit-tweet and get TikTok back online to appease people.

ljesterd.bsky.social•101 days ago

This feels like a ploy by trumps staff to garner support.
The praise and pandering seems to align with the demands that Trump would make. I deleted TikTok and I will not be redownloading

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

Yeah like this is not OK. Like is it being controlled & censored & monitored more now? Don't know. But the whole toying w/people's lives thing & then coming back online w/o a REAL explanation... not trustworthy at all.

dilemmango.bsky.social•101 days ago

em-nems.bsky.social•101 days ago

2 hours before it went dark I got a red flag for using the term "boot licker".

tonya-ann.bsky.social•100 days ago

I got one for saying someone looked like a non alcoholic version of JD Vance…

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

Wow really? Interesting... it didn't seem to have an issue with that term before

tek2674.bsky.social•101 days ago

In fairness I made a few comments that got flagged last week for mentioning Luigi. I even got an account strike for too many flagged comments.

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

Oh yeah I did see that post. Not sure what to make of it because some people say this type of message censoring is new, and others were saying those type of comments were getting removed before too, so... yeah I don't know. Think I'm beginning to mentally wash my hands of the tiktok sitch.

rhys-ives.bsky.social•101 days ago

Welp.

ultimatenerd800.bsky.social•101 days ago

How can it be more censored than it already was before? Tiktok was already censoring people before the ban so I don't see it getting worse than it already is

thehartoftheparty.bsky.social•101 days ago

Throttling views then offering a premium for priority viewership. I know shadowbans exist, but I'm going to guess the creator funding is also on the chopping block. Just guessing.

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

Seems pretty capitalistically plausible tbh

chrysanthemum963.bsky.social•101 days ago

a big component of tiktok were videos of police brutality, explanation of politics (hearings etc) and livestreams of protests/natural disaster events not covered by MSM, i could definitely see them censoring that kind of stuff now

prezbeeblebrox.bsky.social•101 days ago

The genocide in Gaza, that's why it was banned.

chrysanthemum963.bsky.social•101 days ago

that and the facilitation of class consciousness

lisawaggoner.bsky.social•101 days ago

Trunk wrote on Truth Social that his goal is for 50% of TikTok to be owned by the U.S. gov’t. Not to mention that getting rid of it started with him, and now he “fixed” the problem that he created? It’s fishy.

lisawaggoner.bsky.social•101 days ago

I wish we could edit on this platform. Trunk? Oh well 😂.

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

People are always editing his name into something ridiculous anyway, so I didn't even think anything of it lolol

lisawaggoner.bsky.social•101 days ago

I guess Trump/Trunk/Republican Elephant? Though, I feel bad for the poor elephants 🤷🏻‍♀️.

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

Idk but I have seen people saying they were starting to get a suspicious increase in right-wing stuff just prior to the ban. If it starts shooting down dissenting opinions about America or something... I really don't know yet. Just thinking out loud.

ultimatenerd800.bsky.social•101 days ago

That's fair but I wouldn't take it seriously until it actually happens a lot of people like to speculate out of anger and 9/10 nothing happens, all I'm saying is don't believe everything you see online

johnfensworth.bsky.social•101 days ago

In my mind the thing is that we're left to speculate like this because we're made to feel like our lives are pawns & toys in the games of those in power. Like all this tiktok ban shit affects people's lives w/o real communication & explanation. Situation is shitty, ya know.

ultimatenerd800.bsky.social•101 days ago

That's fair I just try to be careful on what I see and try not to go into a deep rabbit whole

anx-racc.bsky.social•101 days ago

I'm not going back they can easily take it again

this-little-piggie.bsky.social•101 days ago

Just a few minutes into gaining access and creators are already saying their previously posted videos/comments are being removed citing cgv's. It's a right wing cesspool without equal governance. Red hats will say anything and get away with it while left leaners will get warnings and bans

kimmicn.bsky.social•101 days ago

Only if you have it on your phone still. The App Store isn’t showing it

drgrat.bsky.social•101 days ago

Jeff Yass, a libertarian billionaire and Trump mega donor, owns 15% of Bytedance the parent company of TikTok.

It’s all political theatre.

Know your oligarchs!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Yass

awesomeamyc.bsky.social•101 days ago

I do not trust it. Not one bit. Chew is part of the problem now. Maybe was the whole time. Never trust a billionaire.

smithbailey.bsky.social•101 days ago

His bio no longer says TikTok CEO, so there’s that. The whole shutdown thing seems like a cover that gave them time to move everything to meta servers

permacultist.bsky.social•100 days ago

💯

simonearth.bsky.social•101 days ago

This is how the meth dealer reels in the addicts

laislamellama.bsky.social•101 days ago

@washoesfriend.bsky.social

2ghost.bsky.social•101 days ago

I can’t even find it on the App Store