Something about this platform makes it way more conformist than the other ones, at least so far. Half the videos seem to be people doing their own version of other users’ videos.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 03:21 (five years ago)
If, as seems to be the case, kids are super enthusiastic about Tik-Tok, even if it looks to me to be scarcely different than other short video platforms, I would hazard the guess that maybe it's because kids think of it, rightly or wrongly, as being an internet space that belongs to more to kids than adults. Even if that idea were in some degree correct, it will without a doubt be co-opted by adults to push stuff at kids so fast it will make your head spin.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 24 April 2020 03:32 (five years ago)
vine was good because there were a lot of videos of people falling down and eating shit. these things are too long, giving its users too much of an opportunity to express their horrible personalities
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 24 April 2020 03:32 (five years ago)
First social media app that ive started using to try it out and realized immediately that I'm too old for it, I hate it, and I dont understand it.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 April 2020 04:11 (five years ago)
that was / is snapchat for me. I can't even figure out how to use the app. every time I open it i just get the camera and the icons make no sense and no i don't want to import my contacts. it was the first app that made me feel completely old.
― akm, Friday, 24 April 2020 05:38 (five years ago)
ok boomers
― donald failson (sic), Friday, 24 April 2020 05:45 (five years ago)
this was fun for the first couple of hours, but once you realise 95% of the videos fall into the same specific buckets (weeknd dance routines, shitty pranks on family members, kids’ voices ironically dubbed onto adults, cats/dogs, gym junkies in their pants, 31 year olds insisting they’re not too old for tiktok) it really loses its allure
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 April 2020 05:49 (five years ago)
3liza's curated TikTok threads are better than actually using TikTok:
tiktok thread directorypart 1: rednecks making huge strides on tiktok - https://t.co/QUkW1hiKYOpart 2: helo - https://t.co/FFiMB6rvu2part 3: arson - https://t.co/8oLufiuEhL— in fair corona where we quarantine (@3liza) February 7, 2020
I'm amazed that there hasn't been a gigantic moral panic about the platform yet.
― ShariVari, Friday, 24 April 2020 07:21 (five years ago)
There are rumours of censorship of political content on TikTok. I'm not sure how true they are. I wouldn't be surprised at all though, it's a relentlessly 'posi' platform.
This was good though:https://www.tiktok.com/@kyscottt/video/6815758866769349894
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 April 2020 10:10 (five years ago)
https://www.tiktok.com/@coprobro/video/6650643313068084485?u_code=d512kgcmd6aa8e&language=en×tamp=1553533543&utm_campaign=client_share&app=musically&utm_medium=ios&user_id=6663118810343686150&tt_from=copy&utm_source=copy&source=h5_m
this one is really good
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 13:45 (five years ago)
there was also a controversy because the company told moderators to suppress posts by obese people, disabled people, and others with "undesirable" traits
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:15 (five years ago)
jeez. that makes sense, honestly. the people i am seeing are mostly young, fit, and even blend in with the celebrities who pop up posting similar content.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:20 (five years ago)
there is something very untrustworthy about it. specifically, the fact that 1/2 the humor seems to be playing on gender and age stereotypes.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:23 (five years ago)
The biggest problem with the platform, imo, is there's basically no way of monetising prominence other than taking donations from users. You have a bunch of young people, often under or around the age of 18, with Amazon wishlists, Cash Apps, etc getting $$$ from internet randos of all ages. Inevitably, that leads to some of them selling nudes, etc, It's incredibly dodgy on an app that is largely intended for children.
― ShariVari, Friday, 24 April 2020 14:31 (five years ago)
yeah, eesh.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:32 (five years ago)
Totally.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:34 (five years ago)
instagram is like this too, i imagine. it's become so much more about people trying to become personal brands than it is a photo sharing app.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:35 (five years ago)
I think Tiktok has gone out of their way to heavily censor anything perceived as adult content tbf, much more than Instagram, but it's not a good situation.
― ShariVari, Friday, 24 April 2020 14:36 (five years ago)
― akm, Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
oh I didn't get snapchat either but sort of categorized it as a messaging app more than a social media platform, I'm not even sure if that's correct mind you
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 April 2020 16:34 (five years ago)
this one is killing me somehow.https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS9QNE4s/between this and the guy who tries to guess paint colors while he’s watching the constituent paints being mixed there’s this kind of joy in the abject that i feel like tiktok often just nails and i am a huge sucker for it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2020 22:52 (four years ago)
this one’s good toohttps://vm.tiktok.com/ZS93wSxX/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:35 (four years ago)
https://www.tiktok.com/@rickastleyofficial/video/6890858524092402946
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2020 17:55 (four years ago)
i almost clicked on that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 November 2020 17:59 (four years ago)
amazinghttps://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21559677/tiktok-cfius-court-petition-ban-deadline
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:08 (four years ago)
I’ve been laughing at this TikTok for 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/ZTN5qBwEGo— T. Kyle 🏳️🌈 (@tkylemac) November 20, 2020
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 November 2020 20:21 (four years ago)
(that woman has some severe apnea issues i think)
https://www.tiktok.com/@collroy/video/6887045734991023366
― reggae kraftwerk (||||||||), Monday, 23 November 2020 10:24 (four years ago)
Somewhat related: It also looks like Epic records is paying tik tokkers to use old songs in hopes that a viral sound will lead to a boost in back catalog streaming. via @colinphl https://t.co/s6HV9hxzc7 pic.twitter.com/6aemUBKIb4— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) December 4, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:11 (four years ago)
Coming up with a way to make people lip syncing even worse - bravo!
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:16 (four years ago)
lol, that is a fucking sin
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 21:13 (four years ago)
can't stop watching this
I think this is the best edited Tik Tok I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/OUCqiBKkSK— Kristi Anderson (@CinderSlays) January 9, 2021
― Roz, Monday, 11 January 2021 05:15 (four years ago)
wtf that makes mj's black and white seem amateurish
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2021 05:30 (four years ago)
similar in the comments
This guy too pic.twitter.com/gzgncyu5o6— n0 name (@mrnonamerod) January 10, 2021
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2021 05:32 (four years ago)
^nice
tiktoks that are almost definitely terrifying to watch while high:
"wow these edibles are shit" pic.twitter.com/JT5Z7PALC7— 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖆 ✣ 𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖉 ⬜⬜🟥🟥⬜⬜👽 (@VPestilenZ) December 16, 2020
(@connection_intercepted)
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:43 (four years ago)
awesome
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:57 (four years ago)
amazing
I just watched the sea shanty, done with the four lads originally from a photo. Not only is it some dope work, the shanty is catchy as hell.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:17 (four years ago)
the shanty is horrifically catchy and satisfying to listen to but it's been haunting my dreams
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:18 (four years ago)
oh, can't wait for that tonight then
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:19 (four years ago)
gonna post it anyway
Sea shanty tiktok is WILD pic.twitter.com/rjY1iXFQkA— Kristian 🇳🇱 (@vonstrenginho) January 14, 2021
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:04 (four years ago)
https://www.tiktok.com/@overloadcomedy/video/6920289799702203650
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 January 2021 01:30 (four years ago)
A little weirded out by how weirded out the kids are by their non-mirrored faces.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 February 2021 03:43 (four years ago)
https://www.tiktok.com/@maelynesque/video/6910768593911221509?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
― pplains, Thursday, 11 February 2021 03:45 (four years ago)
?eah, ?eah, ?eah, I left that extra part in post haste.
No one is doing TikTok like him pic.twitter.com/TpjcGovjKX— Kalhan (@KalhanR) March 18, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 18:55 (four years ago)
i like the sea shanty video.
however.
the platform is mostly dystopian, as are the instagram "reels." most videos are autobiographical and self-commodifying -- people commenting on their personal life, their relationships, etc, but in a way that burnishes a curated image. so far so predictable. sometimes they are selling a product or have a cashapp in their bio or whatever.
what's weird is the way the users do so, usually recreating some kind of popular meme. they turn themselves not just into a commodity, but into a very dumb meme. and they draw their pets and family members into it. like they're all cartoon people, living out a slapstick existence. the most terrifying of these videos involve that robot-voice narration.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:35 (four years ago)
it's like, if adorno wrote a dystopian novel, this would be what people were doing all day in his version of 2021.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:38 (four years ago)
i've got a video for you treeship
https://www.tiktok.com/@geezyunit/video/6947387987659443461
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:40 (four years ago)
ok, that's pretty good.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:48 (four years ago)
my usually social media-illiterate became obsessed with tiktok over the past year and now i can't send videos of my cats to the family gc for fear that she'll turn them into videos with stuff dubbed over them. she's getting to a point where she sees everything as fodder and she's addicted to getting views. she and my dad keep guilting me and my brother for not liking her videos and we keep having to explain that you need to have an account to do that
― ✖, Monday, 24 May 2021 04:24 (four years ago)
social media-illiterate MOM**** became etc
Every bit of social media is now fine with the incoming US government except Bluesky*
* please join Bluesky, where the resistance is at.**
** already there, mate
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 January 2025 10:52 (four months ago)
kinda funny thing about the data mining discussion is almost all of peoples personal info can just be purchased on the open market theres prob not much thats being collected by tiktok thats not being collected and bundled up for sale by a million other services, in fact all the big social apps are purchasers of that data too so they can learn more about you a get you to use their apps more serve you ads sell yr data to someone else etc, governments buy it criminals whoever wants to its out there, were cooked baby
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 13:57 (four months ago)
My impression of prolific tiktok users is that they’re all zero attention span morons who believe everything they read without question. Started thinking this when I saw a collection of videos of some high profile accounts lipsyncing Amber Heard’s rape testimony and have never felt the need to review that opinion. Unfair? Perhaps, but there’s something about seeing people gleefully sexualising a description of rape that just killed something inside me. I’m reading in orbit’s description of it and understanding what she’s saying and I’m sure it’s true re how algorithms shape user interaction - and yet my sister was telling me that Trump was going to win based on the kind of shitheads and dummies on tiktok endorsing him back in September. I’ve seen her for you page on the app: she likes beauty influencers and animal content, my most apolitical sibling who never votes, and yet she was still seeing this - that unnerved me. I don’t care about it being Chinese-owned at all, I care about the reach and influence of the medium. That being said, completely irresponsible and pathetic of the Democrats to hand Trump a PR win with the usual people who never pay attention to anything important.Anyway lagoon otm re being cooked. It’s a case of picking your poison.And this article dropped in the past hour: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/conservative-influencers-celebrate-tiktok-sponsored-trump-inauguration-party-2025-01-20/
― gyac, Monday, 20 January 2025 14:53 (four months ago)
the best credulous tiktok happening was when people thought giants were real (idk how many of them really thought that but prob at least one)
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 14:58 (four months ago)
im sure its true that theres good tiktok vids if you tune yr algo ive seen enough of them clipped to other platforms, im with those who dont like the reels life tho its by far the most diabolical social media form yet theyll have you chugging tiny videos it doesnt even matter if theyre bad or not theyre over so fast, the feed is for babies compared to reels
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 15:05 (four months ago)
Reels are appalling, they're so AI-y and content farm-y and yeah way shorter than TTs.
Aiui Tiktok doesn't siphon any more of your data than Meta, Uber, Amazon, your Kindle, meal ordering services, X, subscription media, or anything else is already doing. If you purposefully don't use any other those things, fine, great job, but I'm guessing you were never the audience for social media anyway. I recognize that the basic nature and the transparency of ilx is what makes it tolerable even for not very online ppl, and I feel the same way but I got totally different support from TT not least because there were tons of women of all ages making content about their lives which...I don't even know where else that kind of thing exists. I'm going to miss that.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 20 January 2025 16:18 (four months ago)
fwiw i talking about the overall form of tiktoks reels shorts idk what the general name for them is
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 16:20 (four months ago)
occurs to me that tinders swipe left/right design was a progenitor of these post feed social media interfaces
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 16:22 (four months ago)
short form videos i guess pretty unsatisfying name
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 16:31 (four months ago)
logged out of youtube theyre showing me the good stuff now
https://i.imgur.com/S9joGb1.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:05 (four months ago)
i only went on tiktok to look at my kid's account. it's awesome! he was bummed that it was going away.
https://✧✧✧.tik✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@real✧✧✧.virtue✧✧✧?lang=en
― scott seward, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:16 (four months ago)
oh right no linking to ilx.
it's realite.virtuelle
if you ever go on there.
― scott seward, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:17 (four months ago)
RaddagherAn update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala
― sleeve, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:17 (four months ago)
other then that i've never looked at it.
― scott seward, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:18 (four months ago)
from raddagher.bsky.social xp
― sleeve, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:18 (four months ago)
TikTok seemed to be heavy on the worst genre of social media (people talking at you dropping knowledge bombs) and lighter on the best genre (dogs and puppies doing funny things).
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 January 2025 17:26 (four months ago)
cmon theres gotta be a lot of dog stuff on there
― lag∞n, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:28 (four months ago)
the algo betrayed you because the dog and cat content is primo
― Gukbe, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:32 (four months ago)
I know I've been critical of Tik-Tok, which is not aided by my shitty vision making viewing videos on a phone to be a headache-inducing affair, but I'm realizing that the Dems made a huge mistake by ceding the ground on this to Trump, especially since it was his Supreme Court nominees that banned it.
If the Dems in Congress had any competence or fight, instead of being a bunch of quisling gobshite wimps, they would have had/still have a coordinated message on all media (especially before TikTok went dark) hammering away that DT is the literal reason that this was disappearing. But like the similar coordinated messaging effort calling the Repubs a bunch of book-banning, womb-monitoring weirdos, that would commit the dual sin of being called 'impolite' and 'cringe' by the upscale Beltway types in the old media, while also successfully appealing to normies, and the we cannot have that!
― Steely Danzig: Turn Up 'Where Eagles Dare', Neighbors Are Listening (Prefecture), Monday, 20 January 2025 17:41 (four months ago)
I like pets (esp animal shelter social media accounts to convince you to adopt their dogs and the person with 3 sighthounds in Wisconsin) but I actually preferred the knowledge bomb-style posts on the whole.
xp If they had two fucking brain cells and weren't all a median of 70 years old they wouldn't have banned it in the first place.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Monday, 20 January 2025 17:43 (four months ago)
I get an alarming number of live feeds of people living in tents, or rubble, or tents in rubble, in the Middle East, shivering and asking for donations, it’s extremely grim
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 January 2025 17:45 (four months ago)
Democrats have been firmly committed to Cold War II for the past four years. Maybe the concern should be less about them looking stupid re: TikTok and more about that?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 January 2025 17:46 (four months ago)
Hopefully they’ll stop accusing anti-genocide protesters of being Chinese agents now that Trump is in charge of ratcheting up tensions with China.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 January 2025 17:48 (four months ago)
wait what's the deal with tik tok and meta? did meta take over their hosting?
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 20 January 2025 18:02 (four months ago)
Found myself telling a friend at dinner the other night "sorry, I don't watch much short-form video content," and my wife zinged me by saying "is that the new 'I don't even own a TV'?"
― jaymc, Monday, 20 January 2025 18:03 (four months ago)
Zuck buying TikTok and immediately seeing a mass exodus because he makes it as shit as every other meta product would be cool.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 January 2025 18:08 (four months ago)
xp Honestly, though, I stopped using Facebook and Instagram before the unasked-for algorithmic junk started to populate people's feeds, and whenever someone tells me about some random video that got served up to them out of nowhere, it makes me irrationally angry even if it was something they liked. It just feels too insidious. It creeps me out.
The chronological Twitter timeline was always ideal to me, as far as social media goes, because you'd see stuff from people you didn't follow -- but only because it was amplified by people you did follow, not by The Almighty Algorithm.
― jaymc, Monday, 20 January 2025 18:12 (four months ago)
a lot is being made about tiktok as a spy platform but i wonder if the usa government isnt more worried about it as a propaganda platform, its really perfect for that, i could see how a foreign government having influence over how your citizens are getting news could be troubling
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 16:48 (four months ago)
oh for sure. Ryan Broderick wrote last week that what makes US politicians nervous about TikTok is that they "assume it’s doing to us what American companies like Meta and Google have done to other countries. Which is why they can’t actually admit that none of this is about free speech or national security. It’s primarily about measuring — and defining — Chinese soft power."
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 January 2025 16:57 (four months ago)
xp luckily they’ve solved that by deleting comments that say “free Palestine”
― triste et cassé (gyac), Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:03 (four months ago)
that should do it lol
apparently all this grandstanding/executive ordering trump is doing is pretty legally meaningless and theres a good chance that once the grace period to find a buyer expires tiktok will be unavailable in america, details in vid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGXU46rMtRE
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:08 (four months ago)
i think it's unavailable on the app stores
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:11 (four months ago)
oh for sure. Ryan Broderick wrote last week that what makes US politicians nervous about TikTok is that they "assume it’s doing to us what American companies like Meta and Google have done to other countries. Which is why they can’t actually admit that none of this is about free speech or national security. It’s primarily about measuring — and defining — Chinese soft power."― jaymc, Thursday, January 23, 2025 4:57 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― jaymc, Thursday, January 23, 2025 4:57 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Absolutely, but also my FYP has been full of people reading A People's History of the United States and On Tyrannyand lots of other "subversive" material. And calling out electeds and putting the spotlight on companies and CEOs and shareholders and the Resnicks and lots of things that most people don't know about (even if they're not exactly "secret").
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:11 (four months ago)
― what angers me about the smurfs these days (voodoo chili), Thursday, January 23, 2025 12:11 PM (twenty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
yup thats the main mechanism of the law, tiktok shutting down its servers for half a day was just a political stunt
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:13 (four months ago)
There are multiple accounts that just report on sitting officials' stock trades.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:13 (four months ago)
chinese soft power and subversive materials arent necessarily unrelated, china could be promoting that stuff to sow discord in america, banning free palestine is kind of telling in that regard
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:18 (four months ago)
its an interesting dynamic to ponder, gotta stand with china on this case lol, tho obvs its not hard to imagine a situation where it would be less to my personal tastes if say china invaded taiwan
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:20 (four months ago)
I'm pretty happy for people to use social media to self-organize leftist reading groups for political education, seems like an overall good. The fact that it implicates the School of the Americas or United Fruit or robber barons who did anti-union massacres or whatever...it's history.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:32 (four months ago)
yeah it seems like some people were taken aback by "free palestine" stuff on TikTok and the only way they could comprehend it was to assume that it was the result of a meddling foreign power, rather than a natural outgrowth of homegrown activist movements and discourses that had gained purchase among young people over the last decade or two.
― jaymc, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:41 (four months ago)
it can be both tho a meddling foreign government is going to try to promote natural affinity groups that are convenient to their ends, it would prob be beyond even the powers of social media to create movements from scratch, and having the worlds best recommendation engine is the perfect tool to find and cultivate the stuff theyre interested in promoting
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:45 (four months ago)
yes and a deeper issue from the standpoint of organizing imo is, how effective can we really be if we don't have reliable information about our community, what they're interested in seeing, etc? it seems like we've accepted a scenario where we're okay with never really knowing what's going on, how certain things are being boosted or silenced, and i feel like paranoia or suspicion is a natural byproduct of that. and so at the moment i'm inclined to be thinking about getting back to basics and away from reliance on social media
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 January 2025 18:10 (four months ago)
Several people seem to be arguing with a point no one is making. I am not, nor is anyone, saying that organizing can be done only on social media and be effective or have longevity. Or that "we" should rely on an app for "information about our community." That's just weird. That's like the epidemic of someone posting "I like pancakes" and 873484 replies saying, "OH SO YOU HATE FRENCH TOAST?"
By all means go and do things irl. It is also possible for people to share information on the internet. Like...?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:04 (four months ago)
i was responding to the two previous posts, which seemed to highlight a problem around determining whether activity on social media is a "natural" phenomenon or the result of manipulation, either by platforms or external agents.
i never said that you should feel bad for finding interesting things on tik tok, or that nobody should share information on the internet.
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:11 (four months ago)
im sure this has been said tons of times itt but it is interesting that tiktok is winning via showing people things they want to see where all the american platforms seem to be full of crap that no one likes these days, except maybe youtube i guess, youtube is always the secret winner
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:44 (four months ago)
Yeah fwiw YouTube seems to have moved past the "we see you watched a lecture on feminism, here are some videos of Ben Shapiro DEMOLISHING feminism" era and become pretty good at sussing out what I actually want to watch. Difficult to think of it as social media tho.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:51 (four months ago)
yeah its more a streaming algo with social aspects, but so is tiktok, which is prob part of what makes them more pleasant than the purer social networks
― lag∞n, Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:55 (four months ago)
In orbit otm in this thread btw TikTok be different and is what you make of it iykyk
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 January 2025 23:58 (four months ago)
Should govt employees have their Whatsapp taken away? It seems any Paragon client can access anything in their phones. But I guess that’s… okay? Since Meta and Paragon aren’t Chinese?
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 31 January 2025 18:15 (three months ago)
https://fortune.com/2025/02/14/gen-z-teens-experts-trust-influencers-tiktok
It’s not that Gen Z doesn’t believe in experts. Rather, it’s that social media has rewired the way they think about credibility. TikTok influencers are now our “friends.” The algorithm repeats and reinforces what we already believe. And a well-edited, engaging video is much more convincing than a long, complicated explanation from a professional. Credibility today isn’t about expertise but about who tells the most compelling story. This change is slowly reshaping how an entire generation decides what is true and what is not—sometimes with demonstrably negative results.
― jaymc, Thursday, 27 February 2025 00:07 (three months ago)