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Re: TikTok Remix Culture

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Post by DanBC »

bonoboTP wrote: post #212
DanBC wrote: post #156

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You can control your tiktok feed. If you make no attempt to control it you get an eclectic mix. If you use the tools that tiktok gives you you'll end up with a curated feed. TikTok is very good at giving you the content you're interested in, if you take a small amount of time to train it.

How much time does it need? How do I even tell the algorithm what to show if nothing comes up that I'd want? All I see is lame pranks, ass, tits, dancing with nipples showing through the clothes, a banana being sucked into a vacuum cleaner, fishing with weird bait, a guy jumping on the conveyor belt to do push-ups at the supermarket checkout, it's all lowest common denominator garbage. Maybe I could train it better t…

(I don't think you should be downvoted for expressing a reasonable opinion).

I think it suffers from the same thing a lot of social media suffers from: if you know who to follow your experience is a lot better. But discovering who to follow is difficult.

I watch someone on YouTube who does a few cooking videos. And she uses TikTok for the very short recipes, or variations on recipes she's already done.

Re: TikTok Remix Culture

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Post by hansel_der »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #186
alex_duf wrote: post #142

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Oh it will happen once organic growth slows down and the various teams have KPIs and OKRs to follow. Every company bgoes through these phases. They're still benefiting from their "underdog" status, that won't last

Yep, reddit used to allow lurking too.

why the past tense?

can lurk on old.reddit.com just fine

Re: TikTok Remix Culture

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Post by bofh23 »

Here’s an amazing TikTok duet chain that went viral last fall:

Living Morganism (@ok_girlfriend) Tweeted: « the trolls of tiktok are on another level » https://twitter.com/ok_girlfriend/status/1329850124936286213 1:12 PM · Nov 20, 2020

More info about the chain:

Spectacular "Can We Stop Dueting Videos" TikTok Chain Brings Out The Best Of Dueting | Know Your Meme https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/collections/spectacular-...

Re: TikTok Remix Culture

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Post by Touche »

greggman3 wrote: post #248
Touche wrote: post #244

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I searched for lawn care videos 2 years ago and still get suggestions in my feed. The videos might be great, but it's not a subject I want to watch. This is pretty common from what I see.

I curate? my feed? If it suggests something I detest I mark as "not interested". If I'm confident the channel a video comes from is likely to have nothing I'm interested in I pick "never recommend anything from this channel" or whatever the option is. If it's a video of something like say "washing machine repair" which I know won't need recommendations of later then I right click and "open in incognito window" If aft…

I think it comes down to viewing habits. If you like to browse and watch anything interesting then recommendations are probably good enough and you'll like YouTube. But if you're looking for something specific (which I tend to do) then recommendations don't help. As great as a video might be, that's not the subject I want to watch right now.

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Post by lightroast123 »

Kiro wrote: post #153
schmorptron wrote: post #137

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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?

It must be a really recent change in that case. For me the prompt to sign-up only comes up when I click on follow, a live stream or when trying to post a comment.

It depends on your region's privacy and compliance regulations

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Post by xmprt »

atatatat wrote: post #172
xmprt wrote: post #69

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I don't know if I'd call craigslist a nice site. I know it checks all the boxes that HN loves but when I'm trying to buy something simple from the site, I'd rather not have to give the seller my email and/or phone number. Last I checked, there was no way to message on the website itself.

No, give them what's statistically your real name and a full profile with many of your personal connections detailed on it. Huh?

Call me crazy but I trust a website that has to operate under rules and regulations (albeit pretty lax rules) more than a random stranger I don't know on the Internet.

Re: TikTok Remix Culture

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Post by bonestamp2 »

hansel_der wrote: post #252
bonestamp2 wrote: post #186

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Yep, reddit used to allow lurking too.

why the past tense? can lurk on old.reddit.com just fine

I should have added "by default", but you're right there is a work around. Eventually old.reddit.com will get in the way of a major infrastructure update and they'll kill it off. It will make a lot of people mad, but it will be such a small percentage of users that they will do it anyway.

Re: TikTok Remix Culture

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Post by freshhawk »

Graffur wrote: post #170
freshhawk wrote: post #126

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My Tiktok has a lot of videos of people complaining about exactly this and being responded to by pointing out they are telling on themselves in a hilarious way. Gotta hand it to the algorithm, it is always funny to me.

> they are telling on themselves in a hilarious way. It's no secret how the algorithm tailors itself to what you watch. The hilarious thing is people thinking they're getting a 'win' when someone complains about any content. The app presents things to you and tries to grab your interest in any way. A lot of teenagers will, naturally, linger on that content for longer and then it becomes a cycle. That doesn't mean tha…

This isn't teenagers, it's adult men. It is situations where if they showed full understanding and said "I don't want it to show scantily clad teenagers to me as I have a lot of loud opinions about sex and sin but I can't stop looking at them so it keeps sending them" it would be just as funny.

It's not the complaint, it's the moralizing combined with the complaint about self selected content.

If they weren't moralizing then yeah, that's just a report of a bad experience with the algorithm. Those don't go viral.

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