Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

• shiroininja@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Short form video is the single best propaganda machine there is. You don’t get context, so it’s easy to manipulate events. Also, for some reason, people really fall for the “authority” of since rando talking into a camera like they know what the hell they’re talking about.

  Every time somebody shows me a TikTok video as a reference or to make a point, the information is either fake or completely incorrect.

  Not to mention, The algorithm feeds you more of these talking heads and makes you think it’s the general consensus

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    These are all good points, but I fact check and I don’t fall for stupid easily shareable meme bullshit, everybody’s algorithm is their own so yeah echo chambers are easy to get into but it’s mostly just slice of life type content. That’s the really good stuff

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• Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For me its general dislike for influencers and platforms where people are encouraged to put a face behind content, go viral, and make money off of tend to attract those type of content made by those who end up coming off like aspiring infomercial hosts. Like labubu I didn’t even know about until South Park, so it was like kind of awe inspiring what a huge hive mind of mass reach it can be for those part of it.

  But then again I don’t like twitch and most big YouTube content creators either for a similar reason, so might be just an anomaly.

  I’ve like more the social media where people interact for the sake of interacting, since the foundation for potential monetary pay off or fame just is really poor for that. So more message board type stuff like lemmy, reddit, and old school forums.

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can easily avoid big influencers on the app. It’s a lot of small people sharing bits and pieces of their individual lives for entertainment And Education It’s so great.

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    • Lfrith@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is too social for me. I’m not interested in a platform that tends to push people to put a face or name behind an account. I prefer it to just be like the conversation we are having now where you are just another random user name.

      And I perceive more positives to not using social media like tiktok, twitter, or Instagram with huge corporate backing than using it. So no thank you. And times those social media even comes up as a useful search result has been pretty much zero.

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      • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Well, we do live in a social world, and regardless of what people will tell you, the Internet is not fake, it’s very real, but I’m not going to try to convince you to check it out, just let you know that you are missing some quality information content, and maybe new favorite people that you wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to.

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• zwerg@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Then why not write a blog? I hate videos. If Im looking for information, give me something I can scan and digest properly.

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  • dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I get it different people learn differently, but the search function on TikTok is pretty good. They got a good algorithm behind it, don’t just write it off, at least fuck around with it before you throw it in the trash, please I’m begging you. You only have to give it about 10 minutes before the algorithm starts getting in its groove and that would be a good time before it’s an under American control just to look at what it was

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