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TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

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Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#101
post #14

TikTok has definitely become the platform for short form video content. It used to be YouTube, but it's since matured into a place to watch more well produced videos in the 20 minute range. If you haven't given TikTok a chance, try it out.

Wasn’t the tiktok app lambasted for being terribly intrusive and data-collecty?

That and the fact that the company is based in China and thus is fully beholden to any and everything that the Chinese government wants from them, without any checks and balances.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#102
Everything I know about TikTok I've learned from ItsAGundam[1] and ReplicantPhish[2]. I steer clear of it, and don't see the appeal. Not to mention my general aversion to supporting a CCP mass social engineering / information operations platform.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EU_gdYAYDw [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCduKlmN88c

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#104
post #14

TikTok has definitely become the platform for short form video content. It used to be YouTube, but it's since matured into a place to watch more well produced videos in the 20 minute range. If you haven't given TikTok a chance, try it out.

Thanks but no, thanks.

YouTube is already bad enough in terms of time wasted, privacy and more.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#105
This means one eighth of humanity uses tik tok once a month. Only about 3.8 billion people worldwide have a smartphone. We’re saying that about one in 4 smartphone users registers a hit on tik tok every month. That seems really high.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#106
post #14

TikTok has definitely become the platform for short form video content. It used to be YouTube, but it's since matured into a place to watch more well produced videos in the 20 minute range. If you haven't given TikTok a chance, try it out.

Why would I want to watch short form video content? Genuinely curious here.

Short form can force the creator to cut the cruft and show the important part. Recipes, for example, don't include backstories about Grandma's doll collection or unnecessary banter between hosts, but do show how to "fold in the cheese".

[0] meme reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NywzrUJnmTo

[1] how to fold ingredients: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JjaT-Y8Pc

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would I want to watch short form video content? Genuinely curious here.

It can convey more information than the stationary images that dominate much of reddit, while taking less effort to consume than text (it's really hard to get people to engage with more than the headline in written content). TikTok is imho one of the closest approximations of a marketplace of ideas, or a penny-university. Every topic under the sun is talked about (even if TikTok tries to censor a bunch of topics), yo…

> TikTok is imho one of the closest approximations of a marketplace of ideas

Given they are fairly aggressive at censoring views that run against progressive perspectives, can they really be a true marketplace of ideas? Topics like the lab leak theory or nuanced views on trans issues will net you a ban a lot sooner than on other platforms.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#108
post #87
post #65

It seems insane how quickly they did it. How long did it take for YouTube to reach 1B MAUs?

Youtube also started in a very different world in regard to ubiquitous online access, not to mention mobile online access.

That is very true. YouTube's growth was still as explosive as TikTok's given the environment at the time for sure.

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#109
post #105

This means one eighth of humanity uses tik tok once a month. Only about 3.8 billion people worldwide have a smartphone. We’re saying that about one in 4 smartphone users registers a hit on tik tok every month. That seems really high.

Maybe some people have multiple accounts, I agree that numbers seems too high

Re: TikTok has reached 1B MAUs

#110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn’t the tiktok app lambasted for being terribly intrusive and data-collecty?

Probably same as fb and insta. Just use it via browser. (It wasn’t trusting my incognito mode when using playwright, but saving session while in iPhone mode worked)

Seems duplicitous to suggest that a web browser provides something like an anonymizing client.
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