This app could potentially supplant Tik Tok overtime. As Tik Tok’s censorship following it’s acquisition by US investors such as Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX, and UpScrolled already having questionable ethics, this may be the path forward.

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      People also want to use drugs that cause addiction. Is that a good reason to design and create more of them?

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        You could also implement features that reduce the addictivity as the EU might be demanding of Tik Tok in the future. When it’s a federated open source platform with no profit motive that’s going to be something much more easy to get in.

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          Someone with a vested interest in s healthy, functional society of educated adults.

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        People want to use nuclear weapons. Is that what everybody wants?!?!?!? Because that’s what social media is!!! \s