Yeah, some of the funniest screenshots I’ve ever seen have been 4chan green texts. Still doesn’t mean I want to wade through the oceans of shit, lol.
I feel like TikTok is definitely better content-wise because it caters to each individual and a lot more people use it (not just sweaty basement dwellers). I don’t use it because it’s designed to be so addicting.
Aside from that, there are very legitimate reasons not to use TikTok, most notably because it’s owned by a Chinese company, and all Chinese companies are owned by the CCP. Its been proven time and time again to be full of spyware.
And aside from all of that, every time I watch a video on there I’m left thinking “what the fuck did I just watch, and why does it have 50M views?”.
Also vertical videos are ass.
So yeah, there’s no shortage of reasons to avoid TikTok.
Right, China Knowing my viewing habits is the end of the world. They will also radicalize me. Old man is too cool for the content.
You know what shows up on my feed? Cars, CNN, ABC movie clips, and cooking. The same exact shit I get on Reddit, Instagram, and my RSS before it died. If you have actually used Tiktok for more then 5 minutes and that’s all you see, then that’s on you. The algorithm is quite spot on for every user I know.
China Knowing my viewing habits is the end of the world.
China knowing your personal viewing habits is inconsequential. China having a database of the viewing habits of billions of users around the world, and injecting propaganda to manipulate the general populace is a completely different story. In case you haven’t heard, the world is being run by disinformation. When you use TikTok, you contribute to that.
If you have actually used Tiktok for more then 5 minutes and that’s all you see, then that’s on you.
If someone starts sticking their finger up your ass, how long should you endure that before you decide you don’t like it? And why?
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Not even remotely close. There is a ton of interesting content on there. Most of it is non-shopping stuff.
itsathursday@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is also what people say about 4chan
wsweg@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah, some of the funniest screenshots I’ve ever seen have been 4chan green texts. Still doesn’t mean I want to wade through the oceans of shit, lol.
I feel like TikTok is definitely better content-wise because it caters to each individual and a lot more people use it (not just sweaty basement dwellers). I don’t use it because it’s designed to be so addicting.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
They were speaking specifically about the shop.
Aside from that, there are very legitimate reasons not to use TikTok, most notably because it’s owned by a Chinese company, and all Chinese companies are owned by the CCP. Its been proven time and time again to be full of spyware.
And aside from all of that, every time I watch a video on there I’m left thinking “what the fuck did I just watch, and why does it have 50M views?”.
Also vertical videos are ass.
So yeah, there’s no shortage of reasons to avoid TikTok.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right, China Knowing my viewing habits is the end of the world. They will also radicalize me. Old man is too cool for the content.
You know what shows up on my feed? Cars, CNN, ABC movie clips, and cooking. The same exact shit I get on Reddit, Instagram, and my RSS before it died. If you have actually used Tiktok for more then 5 minutes and that’s all you see, then that’s on you. The algorithm is quite spot on for every user I know.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
China knowing your personal viewing habits is inconsequential. China having a database of the viewing habits of billions of users around the world, and injecting propaganda to manipulate the general populace is a completely different story. In case you haven’t heard, the world is being run by disinformation. When you use TikTok, you contribute to that.
If someone starts sticking their finger up your ass, how long should you endure that before you decide you don’t like it? And why?
otter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
There ARE good people making good content that use the platform. A big part of that is because that’s where you can reach a lot of people
But that also means we should continue to highlight issues so that we can fix them / build something better
otter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
The user above may be trolling
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No. You all just call anything you disagree with trolling.