Windy Day Posted October 17 Posted October 17 the content you get on tiktok is merely a representation of yourself and what you like and your actions within the app. its algorithm is actually very powerful and fast, unless something went wrong (it glitches sometimes and recommends completely unrelated stuff, but it rarely happens to me these days). i only have funny stuff, sweat tour videos, pop culture memes and edits on my page and everything is harmless and entertaining and i like it. i don't understand people who complains about only having toxic stuff on their page because you probably interacted with it to constantly have it... it's very easy to not have that stuff
Kern Posted October 17 Posted October 17 I deleted TikTok because it kept showing me disturbing content and for some reason - footage from 9/11? I wanted Floptropica and funny videos but for some reason the algorithm would always show me murder cases etc. 2
Onyxmage Posted October 17 Posted October 17 1 hour ago, LittleCupid said: Not always, when I had an account I was sometimes shown American right wing content when most of the videos I interacted with were animals, old TV show/movie content, funny female creators (KhaeNotBae, Princess_Milkyy, etc) and Japanese things. They sneak that in sometimes but if you scroll past it enough it wont show up as much.
freshoutthebuffet Posted October 17 Posted October 17 3 hours ago, Bhabylon said: TikTok thrives on negativity and rage bait, I hate it and so many videos (whether purposely or not) spread misinformation while getting hundreds of thousands, even millions of views and likes and people agreeing or adding on in the comments. 2
Malkuth Posted October 17 Posted October 17 3 hours ago, Mariah4life said: im too old for that shiet. you know how old people dont know how to use technology. that's me on tiktok Similar. For me I know how to use it. I WANT to like it. I want to be a part of society. Other people seem to really like it. But I just can't. It's so boring. I've tried a few times to get into it but I always get so bored. It's so boring I would genuinely prefer to listen to my own thoughts. 1
Shelter Posted October 17 Posted October 17 It used to be fun, the dancing and stuff, but now it's just like other socials, so negative. 1
Le Grande Posted October 17 Posted October 17 I installed it like 3X out of curiosity/fomo, and thought that people there need help so I got rid of it quickly. 1
getBusy Posted October 17 Posted October 17 I feel that way about Twitter instead. It has become an engagement farm where the shittiest content goes viral just because the blue checkmarks engage with it. I do like my TikTok though. Not perfect, but most of the content I get is actually funny. 4
makeme Posted October 17 Posted October 17 6 hours ago, BrattyBottom said: My whole feed is mostly just cats and I built it to be that way. I find whenever there's a major pop culture event I tend to get some of that pushed but the key is to scroll quickly and don't interact. Tiktok can be a lot of fun and catered to you if you play the game lol That sounds a lot
ToMmY Posted October 17 Posted October 17 Tiktok has by FAR the best algorithm of any social media out there. You will rarely see something on your feed that you didn't give a clue you would like, especially after a while of using it. Now... stay away from the comments because that's where the awful people live (which I don't understand because they have deleted some of the harmless comments of mine but that's another story). 2
Gelato Posted October 17 Posted October 17 you need to build your FYP brick by brick, once you have it curated then it's very fun
Pheromosa Posted October 17 Posted October 17 They need to ban it, it's worse than Facebook was for fake news plus the security concerns for the cherry on top 1
NoOneDiesFromLove Posted October 17 Posted October 17 Tiktok is just misinformation, staged content and cringe trends, nothing in between. Delete it and keep it that way 2
commander Posted October 17 Posted October 17 (edited) I don't have a TikTok but I feel exactly the same about YouTube and most recently Instagram. The amount of meaningless and valid content there plus the disgusting amount of ads make me feel in a sort of late stage capitalist nightmare. Social media has become a literal cesspool of anti-intellectual garbage and I'm sick of it already. Edited October 17 by commander
Trent W Posted October 17 Posted October 17 My algo is just pets and science is pretty good But I still think tiktok is just not that good for the brain
imabadkid Posted October 17 Posted October 17 TikTok was its best in 2019 and early 2020 before 2022ish when the entire world got on it. Tbh it's still WAY better than Insta. Twitter is irrelevant and isn't even useable so there's no competition there. Tiktok is still the most fun social media app. I have noticed some millennials and older who still use Twitter and Tumblr and think social media today should still be what it was 10 years ago don't like TikTok but you have to evolve, things change… including social media.
BrattyBottom Posted October 17 Posted October 17 5 hours ago, makeme said: That sounds a lot Not interacting sounds a lot, lol?
laqqinq Posted October 19 Posted October 19 It mostly depends on how you curate your relationship with the algorithm. TikToks like the one above are just the extremely early stages of brainrot.
blueberries Posted October 20 Posted October 20 actually there's a lot of interesting stuff there but every time i come back to it the algorithm resets back to the pure cancer of tiktok and it gets insufferable, so i gave up
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