TikTok failed to avoid a federal ban.

TikTok says it is officially going dark in the United States now that a federal ban of the app is going into effect. Around 6 PM Pacific time, the app began notifying people in the US, including Verge staffers, with a message that says the ban will “make our services temporarily unavailable.”

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  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Valid conclusion, thanks.

    That said, the post comes off as more OMGtiktik! Posting rather than “how to grow the fediverse in a post tiktok world”

    My frustration comes from the firehouse of inconclusive, unproductive rubbernecking on the wriggling of corporate social media, which is all a program for data extraction, regardless of the extractor.