I’d probably jump ship. The dynamic that exists on TikTok is not something I have any interest in participating in. And that’s entirely putting aside the massive user privacy issues.

If I was qualified and competent enough to be around the general population, I would be on Facebook.

great. even more people who aren’t going to like me.

at least I won’t run out of downvotes

Why TF is the server so slow?

I’d probably have to filter out the sudden influx of TikTok-like shorts, but I’d still be glad to have more people to connect with, and on a FOSS platform no less.

It’s fine. You see what you want and filter what you want.

Also, who says we aren’t already here?

I would find some other platform. Maybe back to forums, but I would miss a nice app for them.

I would look at the clock radio and see if it’s playing “I got you babe” by Sonny and Cher.

That depends on how they were posting.

If suddenly every post was a vertical video with every title and comment in Gen Z slang and therefore unreadable to me I’d wonder what the fuck happened. Otherwise I probably wouldn’t notice unless people were actively talking about it.

Id be sad knowing that servers will probably crash

Ah, Hell No.

I’d just hope they all join a tiktok-specific instance so it’s easy enough to filter out. But it would be nice to see a larger adoption of the fediverse (although I feel like overnight growth of that scale might rock the boat too much, it would be far more preferable to have a more gradual adoption).

“Why is this not loading?” as inevitably nothing will load when the servers get 1000x the traffic they were expecting.

Time to leave lemmy.

I would be skeptical that it wouldn’t become a dumpster fire overnight.