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I find it hard to believe that this has to do with the superiority of TikTok's ranking algorithm, and everything to do with the fact that its more popular with younger people.
I guess Mudiji did all Indians a big favor banning this drug then. Btw I just tried to install an apk but the ban is strong with this one. 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 sel…
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?
My parents did not understand why I got a tattoo when I was in high school; lucky for me, all mine are easily hidden.
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Other platforms only look for similar content to what you've already seen. They don't take novelty into account. If you like one picture of a dog on Instagram it'll just show you more dogs and you get bored. Watch a few YouTube videos about one topic and the algorithm gets fixated on it. YouTube is so bad now that if you use it to listen to music the autoplay gets into an infinite loop of songs that sound near identi…
It also seems very easy to take recommendation into your own hands on TikTok with long press -> “not interested”, which is very accessible. Once I started to get quite a bit of political / cultural war crap in my feed; I “not interested” a few of them, the feed improved markedly almost immediately. With YouTube I guess you can sort of influence your recommendations by digging into your watch history and deleting a bu…
First time I heard about it. If it's hidden behind an undiscoverable gesture/tap, it's not accessible.
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…
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.
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I always wonder what Bytedance is doing differently compared with other social recommendation tools (aka why does no one rave about Twitter's suggested follows). My sneaking suspicion is product management designed a product that is literally perfect for a recommendation engine.
It really does seem like a lot of the magic here is simply the format. The video lengths are a perfect balance between short enough to be addictive, and long enough to enable content more varied and interesting than just short gags. Instagram and Facebook get bland real quick. Youtube/Netflix videos are often too long to be really addictive - "just one more" isn't as persuasive if "one more" takes 10 min+. With short…
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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.
In your experience, is RSS reliable enough to replace Reddit and Facebook as a news feed?
I still keep Facebook to check on what are my friends been up to recently. But lately it only has part of that content.
Perhaps it is time for friend feed aggregator.
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In my experience, you have to search for things you like for a few months to give TikTok the data it needs for recommendations.
It is scary how easy and willingly we just give up our privacy and data away. Truly the future is Brave New World, not 1984