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are you being serious with that second link?
kinda funny how people must not realize literally every app is querying all that information all the time...
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…
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The thing is, I think it's more than fortune telling. The social media business model is very dirty, it's an addiction machine coupled with selling your data to the highest bidder. The end result will invariably be the same. It's like free image hosting or free file hosting. A "better", "cleaner" hoster appears and then they either go bankrupt or they sell out. Some stuff is just predictable at this point. Social med…
Let me pose a different question. What value does the following claim bring into the discussion: "The is going to be just as bad as , just give it time"? It's just needless negativity. There are so many interesting things about TikTok that one can discuss, and choosing to just be a Debbie Downer about it ("You like it, but it's bad for you!") feel like an extremely boring way to think about anything.
Oddly enough, I find comments like "I don't care to talk about any negativity because this product/service is the best thing since slice bread" boring as well. What's your point?
You seem to be getting unnecessarily upset that people are raining on your parade. No one is raining on your parade, they're simply providing a counterpoint - no need to take that any farther than what it is.
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kinda funny how people must not realize literally every app is querying all that information all the time...
The sense of blind superiority on HN is getting very frustrating and Reddit-like.
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
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…
This thread feels very astroturfed by people who use terms like "neurodivergent".
If everyone is neurodivergent, nobody is.
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…
TikTok is great because it values good content above else. Every other social media platform tends to value followers and popularity over content to reach people. Facebook: Number of friends Instagram: Number of followers Twitter: Number of followers Snapchat: Number of friends YouTube: Unsure exactly, but hard to go viral TikTok: Value of your content Consistently on TikTok you see very popular users with millions o…
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I don't think people are saying it'll get worse, but rather that it's already bad, and over time we'll learn to what extent that is. If you know that and continue to use it, thats fine. I still used Facebook long after all the malarky about that came out (and as is this case, a lot of people, myself included, were already seeing the signs of it way before it came out). You need to pick your battles, in a world where…
"Bad" is a very vague term. The claim I specifically disagree with is that TikTok currently actively deplatforms LGBTQ+ and disabled people. It simply was the opposite of my experience, as my suggested videos are at least 90% LGBTQ or disabled people. I can't even compare it to other social networks, as it gives these "vulnerable" demographics an incredibly large reach today — even with the alleged censorship — and n…
The car analogy doesn't really work, because you don't seem to be saying "TikTok is terrible but its the best we've got". In fact, you seem to be being quite combative with others when they say something along the lines of "TikTok is terrible", which oddly enough, is kind of negative itself. But maybe I'm just misreading things, emotion can be harder to decipher through text, so I suppose only you can know.