Keep fighting the good fight!

So if ByteDance is one voice, congress is another. They too have their individual and collective motivations, both overt and hidden. Collectively, this explains at least part of why they voted yes. crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/...

Obviously that’s not ideal. It’s essentially a slow, painful death by a thousand laggy likes. But it’s important to recognize that ByteDance makes its own strategic calls.

Under the law, TikTok had to kill the U.S. servers. They didn’t have to throw up a modal saying they were working with Trump AND cut off the app from U.S. citizens, right?

We could have all just used a VPN forever.

Need help Reed? I’m a UXer and I know enough React to be dangerous.

Totally fair.

Tori I saw you on TikTok near the end. I’m excited to watch your progress, and I firmly believe your project is the ideal outcome from all of this.

You’ve got this, but I’ll volunteer:

I’m a mid-level UXer, junior level dev. I know a fair bit about component libraries and design systems.

Cool haha, same.

Final Cut Pro is great!

Yeah it’s definitely possible we’ll forget, and if I can be even more hopeful, I would say I hope we have no reason to remember. I’m optimistic someone will build a serviceable clone on the AT Protocol or similar. Something decentralized, beyond government or any one entity’s control.

I agree. TikTok getting banned will probably be the single greatest driver of younger voter turnout in the next election.

Looks like video hosting kinda sucks over here? Here are the last three videos in my cache: imgur.com/gallery/EUrG...