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There is a lot of copyrighted music in TikTok clips. I wonder what percentage of their growth is because of that. Do they get away with it because they're a Chinese company or is it because the music industry hasn't wisen up to it yet?
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I mean, that's about as credible as Facebook claiming to be turning over a new leaf on privacy, isn't it?
I joined Facebook (WhatsApp specifically) in January after working at Amazon for many years. It's evident to me that the company has been and continues to invest massively in privacy and privacy protection – to the extent of inventing new internal technologies that enforce it automatically while handling data, so that software developers don't have to add manual "Should this person/software system be able to access t…
Yeah but does that matter when they have expanded the walls to encompass pretty much everything that most users do online.
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> There are plenty of sites that focus on long form videos Youtube. It's pretty much just Youtube. They are the only player with meaningful market share. Even Facebook video is most effective at only 20-40 seconds. I would welcome any competition to Youtube, even if it means TikTok expanding.
I’m shocked to see YouTube not even make AppAnnie’s top ten list at all. More people downloaded Twitter and Telegram over YouTube last year? Really?
I'm not a TikTok user.. or really a fan or user of any social media (and yes I realize I'm on HN).. but I find it silly that people are saying TikTok is somehow "better" for society or peoples' psyches than any of the alternatives. Do you remember when Facebook wasn't considered terrible? Twitter? Reddit? Instagram? Snapchat? This is just the latest one to rise to the top.. following very predictable patterns. It's g…
Facebook was usually considered pretty terriable especially in the early farmville days
I'm baffled by the glowing endorsements of TikTok on Hacker News of all places. TikTok content comes across as completely vapid. It's like the worst possible mashup of bad television and social media. As a company TikTok seems to have zero goals beyond increasing engagement.
I get the temptation to write it off (I don't personally use TikTok daily), but to me this take feels similar to people who used to assume Twitter is just for people reporting what they ate for lunch. That might have been the case at the start but TikTok has _plenty_ of niche content, some vapid, some productive, which frankly depends on the media you engage with.
I like to think of TikTok as the crack cocaine of addictive social media. I used to think my dopamine receptors were burned out by the constant barrage of memes I received from reddit, Facebook and Twitter but TikTok proves they can refine that product to make it even more potent. When I visit reddit now it feels behind in the same way Facebook used to feel behind. Facebook's video feature (which they shove into my f…
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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…
We already know enough about TikTok to hate it. Unfortunately, the masses don't seem to care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Controversies https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
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…
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…
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Why wouldn't North Koeans hold hands? Most have normal lives in an abnormal place. The best performers train there entire lives and put on shows year round. Secretly they hope the leader will show up one day. In America people wait hoirs to get a star to sign something. In North Korea the biggest star is the leader. From the real footage I've seen it's a crazy place with normal people who do normal things.
> Why wouldn't North Koeans hold hands? Most have normal lives in an abnormal place. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that they wouldn't. What I'm trying to convey is: I have no idea what life in North Korea is like because (to my understanding) nearly every photo that is taken and leaves the country must be approved by North Korean officials[1]. I think many people would love to see North Korea as it is, not as North K…
I knew a western family German passport who went over. You cannot wear blue jeans. You have someone with you at all times and you are not allowed to talk to anyone.
But that tells you very little about day to day life. Checkout this 2012 movie. You will find it interesting and believable.
2012 movie https://www.tvo.org/programs/the-defector-escape-from-north-...
Director interview https://www.tvo.org/video/behind-the-lens-the-defector
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 have dozens of "exceptions" like this on Youtube, slowly accumulated over years.
A lot of the content on TikTok is being funded by TikTok themselves. If this is sustainable I suppose it could keep going forever, but I wonder if the way Youtube turned out in the long run has an inevitable monetization reason behind it.