TikTok is becoming Amazon for Gen Z

Re:TikTok is becoming Amazon for Gen Z by Spivak on Monday December 27, 2021 @11:15PM (#29710310)

So there’s two possibilities for this being your TikTok experience — either you haven’t used it much and you’re getting “generic TikTok” which has about the same quality as the YouTube homepage or the content you’re describing is what you engage with. In Reddit parlance you’ve gotta unsub from the defaults.

I don’t engage at all with cringe humor, politics or memes, and TikTok no longer shows me them except when it goes into “testing mode” where it takes a stab at some continent outside my sphere to see if I like it.

If you’re interests don’t translate well to video — dance, art, music, fashion, home decor, hiking, woodworking, skating, cooking, baking, etc. then it still might not be your thing even if you do give it time.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:TikTok is becoming Amazon for Gen Z by randomhodler84 on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @01:54PM (#29716683)

“I’m holding it wrong?” Nah, screw tiktok. Eventually you will see, like all other social media, that it is mental poison. Very uninterested in being assigned to any kind of algorithmic info sphere. The madness can’t end soon enough. Social networks tend to last about 7-10y before the hate gets too much and starts eating people.

[ Parent | on HN ]