glimshe 3 months ago

I must be immune to their algorithm because, even with an account, multiple searches and 1 hour of use, I didn't get a single video I wanted to watch. YouTube works way better for me. I might simply not like short form content.

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  • therealpygon 3 months ago

    What you really said was “the algorithm I have been feeding data into for years performed batter than the one I used for an hour.” Shocking.

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    • glimshe 3 months ago

      I didn't get an interesting video even with the search function. I just couldn't find compelling content on tiktok for my interests.

      Also, 1 hour without an interesting video is something I've never experienced on YouTube, even on new accounts (I create an account for new TVs). I think I'm simply not their target audience.

      I couldn't even understand the point of 10-20% of the videos, like "What is this video trying to show here? A random person saying the word banana in a loop"

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  • Vampiero 3 months ago

    I mean 50% of TikTok is brain rot and 50% is normies doing normie stuff. If you're someone who saw the old Internet I doubt you'd give a shit about TikTok. It feels like a betrayal of what the Internet could have been

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    • spamizbad 3 months ago

      What do you consider the “old internet”? Because I find older Zoomers and millennials have different ideas of what that means

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      • rayiner 3 months ago

        The old Internet was 50% nerds with extremely specific hobbies and 50% teenage boys saying outrageous things behind the wall of anonymity.

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      • Vampiero 3 months ago

        I mean the pre-smartphone era when there was a barrier to entry on the internet. It was a nice place. Then everything turned to shit, as it always does, when the ignorant masses caused a context collapse by diluting the previous subcultures into a homogeneous blob that is eager to get spied upon and to be served advertisements non-stop.

        The point of no return was precisely the introduction of the smartphone because it lowered the amount of energy necessary for someone who doesn't care about technology to interact meaningfully with it. To this day most people don't own a personal computer unless they need it for work. But almost everyone has a phone.

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mrits 3 months ago

Is there a toggle to enable compelling data on TikTok? I must have missed it

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subarctic 3 months ago

People who use tiktok tell me it gets better when you have an account. All I know is whenever someone sends me a video it always tries to show the most emotionally charged stuff (e.g. war footage) right after. Now it's even showing pictures of Trump when you pause the video

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