I tried it multiple times, but I've always got low-quality-video fatigue when after have seen the same dance moves 20 times by different people for the same music.

With Youtube I can watch conference videos that contain genuinely new content forever, but I don't see that happening with TikTok. Also it spams my mobile notifications, so I had to delete it, even though I don't delete too many apps.

For young people who have their friends on it, it's probably fun to see them, but for me I just hope that forced TikTok integration won't be the next one on Tinder.

Scroll past the ones that bore you, or long press and hit "not interested", and the for you page will improve.

> conference videos

TikTok is for killing time and having fun. If you're learning on TikTok it's by accident. The videos are limited to a minute, ffs. That's why it's fun and it's good that people who take it too seriously are put off by the format and leave.

> I had to delete it

You can curate the apps allowed to notify you on your phone. For me, my phone makes a noise when someone is calling me (a good old-fashioned phone call) and that is the only notification I allow. If you're deleting apps for that, you're missing out.

> young people who have their friends on it

You're thinking of snap. Young people don't have their friends on tiktok, they are mostly hoping not to meet people they know on there so they don't get in trouble for how they use it.

When a platform captures the leisure of young people, it develops a culture with its own conventions and art. TikTok is the first platform I've been excited by since early Twitter. The fact that old people don't get it is a huge benefit. TikTok doesn't want your boring conference videos.

You need to be really careful how you tailor it (what you like, hashtags you look up, who you follow, what videos you watch all the way through or multiple times).

Repetition paired with a slight twist is much more addictive than novel content. See: memes, pop music, MCU, etc.

Snapchat is fun. If you're not on it, it's hard to understand.

I am on it. As a platform, it doesn't hold a candle to TikTok.

X is fun for the next 4 days. If you're not on it, you're uncool and don't jump on whatever is popular because it's popular.

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# Only exceptions, so far

Tumblr, Discord, Slack, Ello, Telegram, Badoo, FormSpring, iTunes Ping, FriendFeed, Diaspora, Bebo, Path, Meerkat, VK, Google Buzz, CryptoKitties... The list goes on and on.

I wouldn't list IRC as an exception. Every IRC channel I've ever tried using has been dead.

Periscope was never fun

I've been on it. It's kinda boring, the videos are so short and are like gifs.

I've been getting into more ig live lately. It seems to be the latest popular thing. Live long videos of stars are hot.