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SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

To be more honest:

Tiktok is actually very useful to find

very specific recipes
rare places to visit
specific tutorials
content in rare languages
insight from countries and cultures not found in regular media
some manifestation footage from the pov of the people
even some war/violent event footage before moderation and is better than Youtube, Reddit or a regular search engine for those.

However, it also has huge amounts of

misinformation
political propaganda
dumb people
pseudoscience
mass surveillance

and it’s usage has negative effects on brain such as:

reduced attention span
distorted time perception
boredom intolerance

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MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
This is cope. TT feeds you the information you don’t need or search for it. If you search you will find better sources for everything. It’s just a big advertisement platform.

Also tf is manifestation footage?

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- SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  How tf is this cope I don’t even use this shit. Just give me the better sources for everything then ? Because I know people who use it and they find things hard to find otherwise. Just because it’s a shit social media doesn’t mean you should lie about what it can do.
  
  Manifestation footage is footage of a manifestation. Quite often people I know who use tiktok talk to me about things going on in other countries that are not talked about in public media
  
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- HailSeitan@lemmy.world ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  A manifestation (or “manif” for short) is the word for a (political) protest in some languages
  
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kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
To be objectively honest, all the useful things you listed are and always have been available elsewhere in the internet.

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- SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Give me a search engine with as much easy to find specific content then ?
  
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  - NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    I’d trust Askjeeves to give me more reliable information than TT
    
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  - Nugscree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Google? Query, then click on the video’s tab. Don’t want to use Google? You can also use Duck duck go, startpage.com, or anything similar using the same steps.
    
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    SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨38⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Stupid comment. Search “rare places to visit” on google and get ready for 10 pages of AI slop articles and those that are not AI are always the same copy pasted from each other. On tiktok locals will make their own list of prefered places and show them and how to go there.
    
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    dzsimbo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Oh, the horror. DDG is only better because it’s not the big G, otherwise it returns the same nonesense search optimized slop. If your data is not important, russian site yandex gives different hits (def better for the high seas). There’s also a paid websearch (forgot the name) that seems legit.
    
    Internet is dead.
    
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