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Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by tomc1985 »

xnx wrote: post #376

It appears as though very few Hacker News commenters have spent any time using Tiktok. It is the only enjoyable, enriching social media service I've ever used. Most everything many of us liked about the old/weird internet is present on Tiktok right now: almost no ads or commercial presense, personal content from real people (not hyper produced productions from influencers and pros), weird content, niche content, orga…

It's not nearly as revolutionary as the WWW and there's only so much info that you can cram into a short video. So... nah

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by johnchristopher »

kenhwang wrote: post #406
xnx wrote: post #376

It appears as though very few Hacker News commenters have spent any time using Tiktok. It is the only enjoyable, enriching social media service I've ever used. Most everything many of us liked about the old/weird internet is present on Tiktok right now: almost no ads or commercial presense, personal content from real people (not hyper produced productions from influencers and pros), weird content, niche content, orga…

On the other hand, Tiktok is the only social media platform I absolutely can't stand. Low quality content, repeated jokes, people desperate for attention, impersonal, memes, and all of it video so there's an unavoidable fixed time cost. With so much good high content available on the internet and how little time people have, it saddens me that so much time is spent on the low quality noise.

There's no fixed time cost, every video can be skipped (swiped) within the first milliseconds. I agree repeated jokes can be boring but it's really easy to skip. I also don't like videos that pick the influencer style "Hi everyone, so today I was in the kitchen and then you'll never believe what happened come on I have to show you, here's the top counter...". Next. As soon as I hear those kind of intro I skip. On Tiktok I expect the video to show me the content directly (a skateboarder's tiktok would jump straight to the trick, no intro). Yes, there's the impersonal challenge culture where people repeat the same thing... so what, some of them are funny/interesting. It's up to you to skip. After a while I'd say my feed has maybe 5% of junk. And easily skippable.

> With so much good high content available on the internet and how little time people have, it saddens me that so much time is spent on the low quality noise.

No, that's unfair, you are saying all of tiktok content is low quality noise, which is wrong

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by franksunjin »

chloerei wrote: post #407
throwaway189262 wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you not realize it was Xi and his propaganda that caused a massive change in opinion of the west? The state news agencies constantly blames everything on foreigners and the west. It has nothing to do with financial crises or BLM or whatever. Financial crisis also happened in 2001 and 80's, they happen all the time. BLM protests are insignificant, US has protests constantly because they are not restricted by govern…

Do you realize that the content you listed is all propaganda by the US government?

Such ironic

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by ALittleLight »

jerrygoyal wrote: post #419
xnx wrote: post #376

It appears as though very few Hacker News commenters have spent any time using Tiktok. It is the only enjoyable, enriching social media service I've ever used. Most everything many of us liked about the old/weird internet is present on Tiktok right now: almost no ads or commercial presense, personal content from real people (not hyper produced productions from influencers and pros), weird content, niche content, orga…

I'm not sure about content quality in other countries but in India it's so cringe i cant stand it for 5 minutes! (gen Z might feel otherwise).. So glad it got banned in India.

I laugh heartily at Indian TikToks. Seems like a unique style of humor - the poisoned water bottle meme is hilarious to me and the fact that it occurs in ~20% of the even Indian TikToks is even funnier.

(I haven't used TikTok in a bit, so maybe this meme has died out)

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by pmachinery »

perryizgr8 wrote: post #403
graton wrote: post #392

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The person you are replying to is Chinese and lives in China. Or at least their post history says so.

Then their comment becomes even more suspect.

Why do you believe simply being Chinese is "suspect"?

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by anoncow »

jerrygoyal wrote: post #419
xnx wrote: post #376

It appears as though very few Hacker News commenters have spent any time using Tiktok. It is the only enjoyable, enriching social media service I've ever used. Most everything many of us liked about the old/weird internet is present on Tiktok right now: almost no ads or commercial presense, personal content from real people (not hyper produced productions from influencers and pros), weird content, niche content, orga…

I'm not sure about content quality in other countries but in India it's so cringe i cant stand it for 5 minutes! (gen Z might feel otherwise).. So glad it got banned in India.

I can understand your concern, but like most things on the internet it depends on who you are following. For example, there are educational Tiktokers and some really creative ones. It also is a social equaliser. The search functionality on Tiktok can be better though. That said, I am not sure about the security aspects.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by pmachinery »

onetimemanytime wrote: post #412
justicezyx wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please give me a link, I haven't heard of such organization recently... Edit: Note that CCP does ensure private firms provide support for employees who are also party member to organize relevant activity. State-owned company obviously has party committee, and except great control on personnel, like kind of a board.

They're called Commissars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissar imagine one standing over as you code and reminding yo what the Party expects...and if x feature is complaint with Party ideals or not.

That link makes absolutely no reference to China in any way.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by mantap »

maltelandwehr wrote: post #413
kenhwang wrote: post #406

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the other hand, Tiktok is the only social media platform I absolutely can't stand. Low quality content, repeated jokes, people desperate for attention, impersonal, memes, and all of it video so there's an unavoidable fixed time cost. With so much good high content available on the internet and how little time people have, it saddens me that so much time is spent on the low quality noise.

Low quality? TikTok videos are much better (in terms of story arc and editing) than Videos on other social networks. And it takes one swipe to go to the next video. The repeated jokes are part of the TikTok culture. Pure copycats will normally not go viral - only adaptions that add their own spin. I agree that it is an insane time killer. But that is because the content is so good and presented in and addictive way.

When I tried tiktok it seemed to only give me videos by British schoolkids. Maybe the content is better in some regions than others but the whole region locking thing stinks.

Re: Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok's US operations

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Post by trianglem »

xnx wrote: post #376

It appears as though very few Hacker News commenters have spent any time using Tiktok. It is the only enjoyable, enriching social media service I've ever used. Most everything many of us liked about the old/weird internet is present on Tiktok right now: almost no ads or commercial presense, personal content from real people (not hyper produced productions from influencers and pros), weird content, niche content, orga…

It’s enjoyable yes but it’s enriching in only the narrowest of contexts.
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