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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…
I tried Windscribe, ClearVPN and more and still couldn't get it to connect.
Either Indian govt has gone above and beyond to ban it or Tiktok doesn't like VPNs. But either way, like the real-drugs which I found incredibly hard to come by here in India (except Goa where they are selling E outside clubs like candy) this is another thing I'll never get to use and strangely I'm okay with it.
Maybe it's me but tiktok content is boring to me. Videos too short to care. Finding videos by your keyword is difficult. The camera angles are too zoomed and the thin width and increased height creates ugly looking videos. The videos themselves are people picking an action or movement and isolating it for effect. I wonder how many others haven't been bite by the tiktok bug.
I installed TikTok after seeing the above tweet but all I got was boobs and ass. I don't know if I'm supposed to be actively liking and disliking content but it is a hard pass for me.
I tried it a few times, but like the title says I honestly got scared of how much it felt like I got sucked into it, and time just flew by. That eerie feeling kind of like realizing I've befriended a sociopath.
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…
It's like being a atheist, raised in an atheist house, in a country full of atheists and then going to church for the first time.
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I'd be more interested about what people subscribe to.
I’ve been interested as well for quite some time. I don’t know how to find websites. That old style of browsing was before my time. Not to mention, who still actually maintains RSS feeds? To be fair idk if it’s really necessary.
But on top of that, just small websites that provide RSS. I change it up here and there.
Maybe it's because I haven't used it, but a lot of the language around TikTok feels exceptional in ways that aren't justified: Twitter has (tens of?) millions of "terminally online" users, but we don't compare it to "digital crack." This isn't to say that TikTok isn't addictive; it clearly is. But I think there are strong recency (it's the New Thing) and exoticism (it's a weird Chinese app) biases in how we talk abou…
Maybe, but TikTok is an order of magnitude above other social media apps when it comes to learning what you like. It’s both scary and extremely impressive. Twitter on the other hand seems to promote monoculture, and tends to push you towards what everyone else likes. It essentially pushes whatever is popular. Some of the most interesting content and users on Twitter are shadow banned, either intentionally or through…
Yes, it absolutely does. Nonviolent social activism, LGBTQ content, and anything judged to be "subversive" is downranked/shadowbanned.
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I’ve been interested as well for quite some time. I don’t know how to find websites. That old style of browsing was before my time. Not to mention, who still actually maintains RSS feeds? To be fair idk if it’s really necessary.
I actually subscribe to YouTube feeds so that I don't have to ever log in. It's really nice. But on top of that, just small websites that provide RSS. I change it up here and there.