TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack

Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by sytelus on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:07AM (#30817615)

I didn’t found TikTok addictive but rather utterly juvenile and amateurishly unsophisticated in recommendation algos. It kept inserting a lot of borderline soft-porn type content which I think keeps younger audience glued more than anything else. I would conclude that it doesn’t take a lot to create recommendation algos to grab attention of below 40 age group.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by novok on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:21AM (#30817677)

I used it for a few days and I can't even really remember the soft porn. I got pretty quick into science, comedy and cute/stupid animal behaviors. I pretty much thought "I understand why people like this" and then quickly stopped using it. I think the fact you can't use it anonymously unlike youtube somewhat disturbed me and I stopped.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by wbear on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:11AM (#30817643)

In my experience, you have to search for things you like for a few months to give TikTok the data it needs for recommendations.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by arvinsim on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:25AM (#30817693)

It is scary how easy and willingly we just give up our privacy and data away.

Truly the future is Brave New World, not 1984

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by andrewzah on Sunday March 27, 2022 @05:08AM (#30818851)

How else would a recommendation algorithm work? I don’t see why it’s concerning that a company knows that I like to follow musicians, etc.

What’s the alternative? Never finding new things because I refuse to divulge what niches or hobbies I like?

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by Ekaros on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:44AM (#30820609)

Yeah. It should be obvious that recommendations to work somehow you need to track what you like. Or other alternative is to just recommend the most popular mainstream thing at the moment... Which then get also attacked for various reasons.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by alar44 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:52AM (#30818037)

Get off it. Asking an app to serve you content isn't giving up privacy. Get some fucking perspective.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by seanw444 on Sunday March 27, 2022 @03:47AM (#30818496)

Yes, it is kind of weird to say "social media exists = 1984" but I think they were meaning that it's worrying how many people use it without realizing they're basically doing the NSA's job for them.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by sytelus on Sunday March 27, 2022 @12:18AM (#30817670)

That’s not people below 40 say. They describe it as an instant drug.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by amelius on Sunday March 27, 2022 @06:52AM (#30819285)

> It kept inserting a lot of borderline soft-porn type content

Is TikTok used equally by men (boys) and women (girls)?

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by BurningFrog on Sunday March 27, 2022 @10:46AM (#30820626)

It catches on pretty fast to what you like.

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Re:TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack by amelius on Sunday March 27, 2022 @01:34PM (#30822149)

What is the feed like for women?

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