TikTok

“the recommended content is miles ahead, making it much more difficult to close compared to YT.”

“it feels like it's pretty dangerous and expensive and I find it hard to believe she got the permitting necessary”

“I deleted tiktok because i have an addictive personality and it was too good at giving me both that dopamine fix and what i actually wanted in the moment.”

“TikTok is now censoring that as much as they can. Prior to the censorship, TikTok was actually a good place for people to get educated”

“when the algorithm gets really curated for me, 30 minutes on Tiktok is a fantastic good time”

“short form content is easier to get sucked into for hours on end than those other ones and something I'm more likely to regret participating in”

“Tiktok came along and showed everybody (including Youtube) just what a bad job they were doing at recommendations”

“Tiktok's content selection algorithm heavily weighs watch time as a signal of interest in related content.”

“feed-based apps (hi Reddit, TikTok, Instagram) refreshing your timeline in hopes you reconsider exiting and keep doomscrolling”

“you get big spikes in business from TikTok videos in ways you don't get from Facebook or Instagram or others”

“I enjoy watching TikTok, especially local or niche creators who have just a couple hundred followers.”

“there's literally a button that says “I'm not interested in any live videos”, but it keeps inserting livestreams into the feed anyway”

“Tiktok's recommendation algorithms are a step above of anything I've seen on FB, IG or Youtube”

“The real plague is the infinite scroll, engagement-farming social media like Twitter, post-newsfeed Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok.”

“TikTok was commonly used, but I can't say if recent US moves actually caused younger people to limits its use.”

“Real life experience shows that TikTok is harmfully addictive and therefore it must be controlled to prevent negative social outcomes”

“Tiktok is much better at recommending videos by very small creators and people with no followers.”

“Is it really bad to give me woodworking and learning chinese videos if that's what I'm interested in at the moment?”

“surfaces exercises for all my joint problems, finds people exploring local sites and reporting on local issues”

“TikTok isn't an app worth having on your phone due to spyware/attention brute forcing/curated propaganda by Chinese government”

“TikTok basically popularitised short form content, which is considered a more addictive form”

“Sometimes I think people who claim everything on these platforms is bad are telling on themselves, or not very savvy at getting the best out of a tool and blaming the tool.”

“In this particular case the censoring of anti-ICE post is most likely because TikTok is getting American (read: Trump allied) handlers.”

“The whole point of the forced sale of TikTok was for the American-Israeli hegemony to exert control over the narrative of the platform.”

“I am not going to against the news part, as you could see my other replies from someone who find niche hobbies with it.”

“I played with TikTok for a week or so. Every time I opened it, it was suggesting feeds featuring clearly mentally impaired people”

“The Chinese, take it for what it's worth, knew how to control TikTok. They simply banned non educational content on the platform.”

“we've seen a ton of small business growth from social media platforms like instagram, tiktok”

“TikTok actually seems to "know" what I like seeing and clearly learns faster than the others.”

“I get a lot of stuff I care about (some scientific papers overviews, blender/davinci editing tips and tricks, bits of high-quality podcasts) on tiktok”

“TikTok often shows me 3-10 minute educational content, which I consider pretty well made.”

“the platform and algorithm is addictive and predatory, but some of the content is really good”

“It keep trying to push the same thing as the day before that I was no longer interested in anymore.”

“This isn't significantly different than the way TikTok has been operating all along, the only difference is a few of the administration's cronies are able to get their heads into the feeding trough.”

“the folks at TikTok should be commended in some ways for the drastic changes their algorithm made”

“China chose to deliberately manipulate and abuse their platform by using it to cause all sorts of users to flood their representatives with calls”

“TikTok allowed the algorithm to amplify what people wanted to see while palestine content was suppressed on other platforms.”

“Preventing a geopolitical rival which we have no democratic control over from exerting algorithmic influence over our country is a no-brainer.”

“it has a highly effective recommendation engine precisely because it is showing you one piece of content at a time”

“the new user experience is so horrific in terms of the tacky default content it serves you”