> I even hate repair-videos on youtube, it's slow and lame,

Here are some TikTok tutorials on light painting [0]. I'm not saying that I like them, or that they are good, but they are incredibly pacey compared with the YouTube equivalents

[0] https://www.tiktok.com/tag/lightpainting

Those are fascinating, and give me a glimpse into a world I didn't even know I found interesting.

One major difference (that some may care about less than I do) is that the TikTok format is great for seeing a variety of content, but does little to help me create. Admittedly, YouTube is filled with lots of filler information (to please their own algorithms) but I could probably figure out what cameras/lights to use, software settings, how to edit, etc... The best TikTok can do is show me what others are capable of.

TikTok comes with a massive apparatus for creating videos.

These tutorials are about how to set up a still a light painting using a DSLR or mirrorless camera in a long exposure mode. TikTok is just being used to record the movement of the light during the long exposure, not to explain the settings (ISO, shutter speed, aperture, etc) of the still camera that takes the final shot.

If there's something that I really really like YouTube for, it would be the videos showing you how to fix or build things. Good woodworking, metalworking, electronics repair videos are hard to find, but I remember seeing a few that were much better than a manual. The manual typically shows one view of a project or workpiece, but good videos show multiple views, close ups, pictures of different configurations I might expect.

You do typically have to wade through a lot of crappy "Hey Guys Like and Subscribe!" garbage with 30 second title sequences to find the good ones though.

I like stuff like Townsends (cooking and build stuff in the old days) but repair stuff big NO for me, but learn howto solder big YES. It really depends.

I just might.

Seriously.

Social media for techies - what will that look like in ten years? Like HN? Or more like TikTok ...

Not having images on HN is occasionally annoying, but mostly it's a feature not a bug.

I have a suspicion that HN will outlast TikTok, but it'll take a decade to find out.

VR headset and enriched reality....with a sexy manga girl in the right upper corner.

To give you guys a glimpse of the future - here is #coding and #startup on TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/coding

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/startup

To give you a glimpse of reality:

https://ayende.com/blog/Images/Windows-Live-Writer/Pair-Prog...

EDIT: Wow i clicked on #Coding and it is like i taught about it...pure waste of time with Rainbowhairs and talking needle slim guy's with more grease on top than the hole movie 'Grease'

I don't know what you are seeing - TikTok gives you localised contents straight away even when browsing their website.

If you play around with it for a bit, the algorithm will adapt to your taste.

No thanks...looks terribly bad.