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OT but why is there a comment at the top here with a direct link to the video that I can't reply to? I wanted to reply that you should check the thread and not just that video since there are many different videos in it.
HN bug? The only comments I've seen without a reply button have been freshly posted (seconds/minutes), but this one is hours old and has no reply button.
Basically every comment here says positive things about tiktok. Is this a bot invasion on HN or is it really that good? The few times I tried it it gave me loads of crappy content. No thank you, I'm not in for another doom scrolling addiction. The world has already enough addictive dopamine-f**ing time-sucker almost contentless social medias. I don't have the energies to fight against or maniacally curate my feed for…
Even the soft core porn made me disgusted with humanity because of the terrible music. Someone will probably pop in and say “oh you have to let it learn what you like!” No I don’t.
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That's not true. I use the app without an account.
Huh? When I open it it asks me to sign up or sign in and I didn't see a skip option, am I just blind?
Any time I have tried to watch videos on it I feel like I am getting a headache and having a few IQ points shaved off. Mostly it makes me sympathize with people back in the day when cocaine was consider a tonic and medicine. "This stuff is so entertaining and I can't believe I just want more and more. You just have to try this cocaine stuff, you will love it".
All I see on Tiktok is brain damage. Pretty people doing "slipping in banana peels" level humor, weird childish stuff like how to use scissors, "mindblow" recipes that make no sense. Various junk "lifehacks" etc. Its all garbage after scrolling for like 30 minutes.
But I'm also not the target demographic, as a programmer in my 30s with still a bit of attention span left. I really don't envy the kids who grow up with this garbage.
Any time I have tried to watch videos on it I feel like I am getting a headache and having a few IQ points shaved off. Mostly it makes me sympathize with people back in the day when cocaine was consider a tonic and medicine. "This stuff is so entertaining and I can't believe I just want more and more. You just have to try this cocaine stuff, you will love it".
Agreed, this thread looks astroturfed. I can't believe the readers of usual HN articles would be so all over Tiktok. All I see on Tiktok is brain damage. Pretty people doing "slipping in banana peels" level humor, weird childish stuff like how to use scissors, "mindblow" recipes that make no sense. Various junk "lifehacks" etc. Its all garbage after scrolling for like 30 minutes. But I'm also not the target demograph…
TikTok is very good at giving you the content you're interested in, if you take a small amount of time to train it.
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There sure has been a change in attitude towards tiktok here on hn. Just go back a year or so when Trump tried to ban it (or force a cheap sale to oracle) and tiktok was accused of being an extension of ccp - read the comments from back then.
Facebook, google etc are also an extension of American 3 letter agencies, so I get why people don't really care. Almost better to ship my data to ccp that cannot really use it for anything, than give big US even more on me.
Though TikTok is kind enough to run their international version on AWS.
Basically every comment here says positive things about tiktok. Is this a bot invasion on HN or is it really that good? The few times I tried it it gave me loads of crappy content. No thank you, I'm not in for another doom scrolling addiction. The world has already enough addictive dopamine-f**ing time-sucker almost contentless social medias. I don't have the energies to fight against or maniacally curate my feed for…
No I think these people are either being paid or are smoking crack, I haven’t used it much but when I have all (edit: “much of”, not all obviously) I’ve seen is soft-core porn and white nationalist or men’s rights propaganda. It’s actually really awful. Even the soft core porn made me disgusted with humanity because of the terrible music. Someone will probably pop in and say “oh you have to let it learn what you like…
Actually quite similar to the so-called "chumbox" content types.
I agree there is unnatural behavior in this comment section. No way the enthusiasm is organic.
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> Instagram in particular seems to have gotten much more aggressive in not letting you view anything without an account. Pretty much everything "big" is much much worse on the mobile web, I guess because they figure they stand a pretty good shot at getting you to get The App instead. It sucks. Those are two separate issues. Almost all features of Instagram, except for interactive widgets in stories, are available fro…
> Almost all features of Instagram, except for interactive widgets in stories, are available from the web (doesn’t matter mobile or desktop). Not exactly. When viewed in desktop browser, photo upload is not avaiable and you need to use developer tools to simulate mobile web browser view which is a workaround. Also, even in mobile web, you cannot upload more than one photo, even though this functionality exists in the…
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> when asked to repond in exchange for cash, no one did Sounds like scam, honestly. How do you get that cash to me? Cause I just don't feel like giving my account number to someone on tiktok.
Like join WeChat fan groups? It's called private traffic, taking back control of your fame, and better milk your fans. One big selling point of these predominantly female streamers is the previledge to add their personal WeChat, what for? Well, it's all about money and exchange. The red-packet/micro-transaction thing is pretty big in China.