TikTokers are calling LA ICE raids 'music festivals' to trick the algorithm
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/08/tiktokers-calling-la-ice-raids-music-festivals-to-trick-algorithm/
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/08/tiktokers-calling-la-ice-raids-music-festivals-to-trick-algorithm/
24 Comments
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl · 41 pts · 351d
People clearly realize that these algorithms are suppressing dissidents and freedom of speech. Why do they continue to subject themselves to these hacky workarounds and self-censorship?
chobeat@lemmy.ml · 35 pts · 351d
because there are no viable alternatives for large outreach.
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 350d
Sounds like a job for the Fediverse...
chobeat@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 350d
the fediverse is microscopic and the people you want to get involved politically probably stay away from it.
usefulchickadee@norcal.social · 2 pts · 350d
yuri@pawb.social · 6 pts · 350d
when the workaround is changing a word vs signing up on and learning how to use a whole new website?
yes
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 349d
No, it's changing the words for a bit, then getting IP banned, then never going back.
That one isn't a hypothetical, it's why I'm here :)
usefulchickadee@norcal.social · 1 pts · 350d
@yuri
Changing the word every other day in an endless game of whack-a-mole vs. signing up once on a new website?
All of us here know which is easier in the long run.
yuri@pawb.social · 2 pts · 349d
yeah, but folks who are already bought into traditional social media aren’t making that same assessment.
why would anyone pay for streaming when you can get it all for free? i certainly don’t get it, but streaming services are wildly successful nonetheless.
Samsuma@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 349d
The reality is that apps like TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, etc.. have marketing teams and entire institutions practically advocating for their use across the planet. In some parts of Asia and South America, you literally cannot get by without WhatsApp in more urbanized areas, for example.
This is the result of US imperialism. They have just enough data centers and server capacity to run hundreds of Instagrams if they wanted to, unlike the Global South (excl. China).
frozenspinach@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 350d
Yes! Loops exists, which is a federated tiktok app. Doesn't have the same content or algo, but it has the infrastructure we all want.
angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 350d
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 351d
only influencers and advertisers need the large outreach; a huge majority of people just passively use it.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 351d
If you want your movement or important information to reach a bunch of people, you need to go to a platform that has a bunch of people.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 350d
And compromise on purity ?
No way José
All my homies
are on I R C
usefulchickadee@norcal.social · 1 pts · 350d
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 351d
that's still an influencer thing
chobeat@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 351d
passive users don't care about suppression and censorship
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 351d
as well as having no good reason for being on those platforms.
glimse@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 351d
They should just train a bunch of pigeons to drop leaflets around town
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 21 pts · 351d
The headline writer did not read the story. Protests are being called music festivals, not raids.
LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 350d
Yeah and if you go on tiktok and search la music festivals or music festivals, it just shows you people saying protest coverage is now labelled this, they're still censoring the actual footage of the protests. And they're censoring different things for different countries.
HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 350d
US libs: "PEOPLE IN COMMUNIST CHINA ARE FORCED TO USE SLANG WHEN TALKING ABOUT CHINESE ATROCITIES TO GET PAST CENSORSHIP!!"
Also US libs: "Unalive" "Music Festival" Bleeping out Palestine "This is fine and way better than communist China"
Also interesting how Tiktok only started doing this after they were forcibly sold off from the Chinese parent company and was forced to conform to "Western values" eh?
semperverus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 348d
Luffy879@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 350d
Idiots will do anything just so they dont have to learn how Email works.
Samsuma@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 349d
do you really expect to be CC'd along with hundreds or thousands of others about ICE raids, never mind about literally any event involving injustice? And how about footage of said event? Where's that going to be stored? As an attachment? Google Drive link?
When censorship of one of its worst kind is unfolding in front of you, where genocide is referred to as "water slide", you instead blame the people for self-censoring? Get real.
usefulchickadee@norcal.social · 1 pts · 350d
chobeat@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 350d
I don't use mastodon exactly because I don't want to put in the labor of figuring out what content to consume. I want to be in control of the logic, but the machine should be doing it. The fediverse fails because it thinks people who want control over their feed are fine with not putting in any labor at all, basically conceding to big platforms that the only way to customize a feed is in an exploitative, invasive way, which is obviously bullshit.