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TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

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Post by trts »

rjh29 wrote: post #199
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #93

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> Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing It's been interesting to watch the steady decline of Reddit and Twitter since they launched. They've always had a significant amount of doom-and-gloom clickbait headlines, but in the past it was far easier to filter out the bad and follow subreddits or Twitter people wit…

Reddit is still good, you're likely subscribing to popular subreddits. Don't subscribe to anything that appears in r/popular or r/all. Try subreddits that intentionally ban politics or have Part of what keeps Reddit free of such nastiness (in my experience at least) is the downvote button. Sure, it creates an echo chamber that ruins the popular subreddits, but on the smaller subreddits, it means that anything toxic,…

This has been my experience as well. There are countless amazing, small communities on Reddit, and being able to kick the popular subreddits out of my feed makes it feel like one of the last places that embodies the spirit of the early internet. Namely -- small quasi-anonymous communities where people can sincerely discuss niche interests and discover new ones through the serendipity of interaction.

Once old.reddit.com gets turned off, I worry about how long this can persist. The iOS app has tons of clickbait hooks, useless notifications, invitations to join "similar" large, emotional subreddits full of toxicity and extremism.

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Post by yepthatsreality »

A lot of talk about how amazing the app is amazing at drawing people in but the conjecture comes off more that these are users looking to being drawn in. Whatever trick the app pulls, these users want that attraction. Kind of comes off as willful gullibility to me.

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Post by keewee7 »

jackcosgrove wrote: post #62
thisisnico wrote: post #37

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Honestly, from a social media perspective, TikTok feels like the least toxic environment. Nobody is showing off their new homes, cars, kids, spending. It feels like a significantly reduced pressure to produce. Many of my friends are just consumers of content. Most of the content I'm seeing are memes and are funny. Even the advertising is more light hearted.

I wonder if this is because TikTok targets a younger demographic that is digital native and practices better internet hygiene.

>younger demographic that is digital native and practices better internet hygiene

Unfortunately 13-25 year olds are less tech sawy than a decade ago because they were raised on locked down platforms like iOS and Android.

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Post by OldTimeCoffee »

zmk5 wrote: post #239
OldTimeCoffee wrote: post #223

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It's made by individuals, not TikTok? I'm not really sure if you know what TikTok is after this comment. Just to clarify, TikTok does not do ad revenue sharing. They have a creator fund, but TikTok creators really make money via brand deals, merch sales and direct donations from fans.

TikTok is a social media platform that makes money from other people creating content for others to consume. Individuals get money for either sponsoring a product or getting many views. How is this the same as someone paying for a clay pot in Ancient Egypt that we admire at today in a museum? The act of getting money is not devoid of the context of which it was acquired.

In one case, people are viewing something created specifically for people's entertainment. In the other case, it's detritus or grave goods we're viewing.

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Post by emodendroket »

mrtksn wrote: post #25

I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time. The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and prote…

I got sick of it in like a week, but clearly my preferences aren’t representative.

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Post by tshaddox »

mrtksn wrote: post #25

I'm a huge fan of TikTok because after years of content stagnation and dullness, the internet is fun again. Especially places like Twitter and Instagram are outrage and depression inducers for me, consumed together it feels like the society is collapsing but everyone is living a perfect life at the same time. The China thing is touchy but I want the west to beat them by being better, not by being dismissive and prote…

Isn’t the discovery algorithm something that any media network could easily adjust to either favor the entire community of creators or to favor the network itself (perhaps by favoring creators with more lucrative advertising deals)?

I would expect fairly new networks to adjust their algorithm towards the former to attract creators, then eventually tweak it towards the latter to please investors/shareholders/advertisers.

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Post by jmfldn »

sarasasa28 wrote: post #180

TikTok is literally TV. not youtube, tiktok. Youtube failed to be a television replacement, and tiktok succeeded. If you don't see this, you are literally dumb.

It's "literally" not TV.

Pedantry-aside, YouTube clearly fits the bill as the TV replacement.

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Post by ALittleLight »

aerosmile wrote: post #235
cronix wrote: post #73

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Another thing Tik Tok does is get rid of people who are obese, queer, or otherwise the target of harassment. Their stance is it's easier to get rid of the person being made fun of or limit who can see their videos rather than the 10k people harassing them. > According to Netzpolitik, the social media company instructed moderators to find users who are “susceptible to harassment or cyberbullying based on their physica…

If you had an issue with Zuck calling early Facebook users "dumb f**ks," wait until you find out what's going on behind the closed Tik Tok doors. You have to remember - we're still in the honeymoon phase with Tik Tok and haven't learned to hate them yet. Once the media and all your friends start sharing hatred about Tik Tok, leaks are going to start coming out, and there will be all the other fun ways through which w…

The thesis for America exceeding China in the near term future that I have heard is "Our Chinese will beat their Chinese." [1]

1 - https://alphastar.academy/us-team-wins-1st-place-at-internat...

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