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TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by ALittleLight »

rvz wrote: post #82
discordance wrote: post #38

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Do you want to back that up? Although FSD is still between Level 2-3, the ML system and work that has gotten it this far is pretty stellar.

> Do you want to back that up? A simple question: Where exactly are the robo-taxis that were promised in 2020 alongside with Level 5 FSD for release in 2019? [0]. [0] https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-autonomous-driving-lev...

Obviously Tesla lies or is insanely optimistic regarding timelines - but they have made some progress with automated driving.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by mym1990 »

silisili wrote: post #92
kristopolous wrote: post #23

I've tried it a few times. Even ran an account for a project I do. I don't know. Maybe I'm not the right personality for this stuff but I found it annoying and taxing. Open it up and you get these obnoxious videos and then have to press a button to make them go away. The user-base and interaction is worthless and toxic. Lots of people love it so maybe I'm just too old. Perhaps they've "cracked some psychological secr…

I'm with you. I assumed it's because I'm older than the target demographic, but maybe it's just because I'm not a 'fun' person - don't sing or dance or party. My wife loved it to death, and I just found it incredibly annoying and overbearing even just hearing my wife play with it.

Haha please don't use your affinity to TikTok as a measuring stick for how 'fun' you are! Everyone is fun in their own ways, I'm sure you are a hoot.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by w-ll »

Why no one in here understands TikTok is because ya'll old. Like, I know you don't wanna hear that as the reason, but it's true. Can't ya'll remember some shit your parents didn't understand, but just made sense to you?

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by badestrand »

rvz wrote: post #101
kpennell wrote: post #4

I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't…

> Instagram, by contrast, just feels so bland now. On to the next 'hit' then. The addictiveness of the drug 'Instagram™' has now worn off and has no effect on many long time 'users' of the drug since first introduced in the 2010s. A new 'digital crack cocaine' with a new innovative algorithmic black-box formula has been on the streets called 'TikTok™' amassing over 1B 'users' designed to glue you to your screen as mu…

It's just entertainment. You could say the same about books or TV. At least Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are social and interactive and encourage people to produce content instead of just consuming passively.

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Post by pipeline_peak »

productceo wrote: post #44

I am having difficulty finding TikTok's addictiveness. My job depends on understanding consumer apps, so in the past 1.5 years, I've been trying TikTok anew every 3 months, each day at least trying to spend 10 minutes on it no matter how uninteresting I find the content to be, but end up giving up after 3 to 7 days each time I try. I swipe quickly past uninteresting content, stay on mildly interesting ones, and make…

Just out of curiosity what are you using to read RSS feeds

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Post by GlennS »

jancsika wrote: post #31
karpathy wrote: post #10

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I agree with this. Their ranker is really good and has improved dramatically the more I watch and like. And it's not even fully garbage content, a good amount of it is interesting, useful, inspirational and educational. A rabbit hole of really excellent videos from a professional dog trainer caused me a detour of 20 minutes and pushed me over the edge to create the original tweet. So one side of me is not even mad, b…

Somewhere in the 80s some concerned parents in Jordache jeans just got kicked out of their mall's little town square facade where they were trying to hand out political pamphlets. And they went, "Oh, so that is the thing." So... what's the thing here with TikTok? I mean it cannot just be that it's a personally-tailored time suck. What's missing? Is it pro-unionization rabbit holes? I'm going to go ahead and guess "pr…

Your comment is incomprehensible.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by mxfh »

The way tiktok pigeonholes you into content categories can be outright condescending though. No other platform does it that blatently.

OK; you start out with the default german content, if you do no how to mark stuff as not interested on the FYP you might get promoted to german expat content. Don't know if the mainstream US experience is different, but at least for me the new content is not enough to keep me hooked for more the 1h/month.

Might be different, if you have to work through the whole tiktok back catalog first, but to me it's nowhere near twitter or even instagram in addictiveness.

The lack of realtime shared news experience is also a thing, and it's less ephermeral nature than, let's say Insta-stories, the FOMO is less then everywhere else to me. Which is a good thing.

Re: TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

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Post by wara23arish »

badestrand wrote: post #115
rvz wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Instagram, by contrast, just feels so bland now. On to the next 'hit' then. The addictiveness of the drug 'Instagram™' has now worn off and has no effect on many long time 'users' of the drug since first introduced in the 2010s. A new 'digital crack cocaine' with a new innovative algorithmic black-box formula has been on the streets called 'TikTok™' amassing over 1B 'users' designed to glue you to your screen as mu…

It's just entertainment. You could say the same about books or TV. At least Facebook, Instagram and TikTok are social and interactive and encourage people to produce content instead of just consuming passively.

Someone’s who’s read a lot of books is called well read.

Someone who’s watched a bunch of shows is called a binge watcher.

No matter what they’re called, reading specifically requires more active thinking than watching stuff. I wouldn’t say theyre the same.

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