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Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by t-writescode on Friday July 29, 2022 @01:35AM (#32273504)
Everyone's TikTok experience is different. Although sometimes you do need to long-press on a video and say you're not interested, the experience as a whole tends to be relatively finely tailored per person.

For example, many of my videos for a long time were basically short essays about current events, relationship advice, (edit: BIPOC) creators, interesting skits or stories about Marvel or DC characters and so on.

Silly dance junk and pranks are certainly not what I see. There is _some_ dance stuff, but it's in subgenres I'm interested in and so I've given those the watch time.

You can curate yourself to things you're interested in. It's not that hard and it's strongly recommended.

Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by cloutchaser on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:47AM (#32274168)
You can both be right. It doesn’t take much for TikTok to show 20% learning content to Chinese people and only 5% to westerners. And no one would know.

But I think it’s much worse. TikTok is clearly the goto place now for divisive content on LGBT issues, it’s provoking massive political arguments. And I’m sure this is just scratching the surface. I have no doubt it’s a global sentiment manipulation tool for the CCP. Why wouldn’t they do it is the question that should be answered.

Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by captainmuon on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:34AM (#32274450)
Maybe what the CCP believes is bad for us (LGBT rights?) is exactly what we need to move forward?

They say divisive content, I say lively political debate. They say stability, I say stagnation. They say decadence, I say liberty.

If there is a masterplan to blow up the west with silly music videos, then maybe our society deserves to be blown up and replaced by something freer and stronger?

Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by ImprobableTruth on Friday July 29, 2022 @05:48AM (#32274938)
>If there is a masterplan to blow up the west with silly music videos, then maybe our society deserves to be blown up and replaced by something freer and stronger?

I'd be much more sympathetic to this line of thought if society getting blown up - even if it ultimately results in improvement - didn't usually involve unbelievable amounts of suffering and death.

Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by trh0awayman on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:49AM (#32274538)
I long pressed on videos to say "not interested" that show gross dermatology videos, root canals, and ear cleaning. I would still repeatedly get those when I was using the app.
Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by Kiro on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:40AM (#32277528)
Pressing "not interested" does nothing. The reason you keep getting these is because you subconsciously enjoy them. You look a few seconds more than someone who truly doesn't want to see it.
Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by derbOac on Saturday July 30, 2022 @01:53AM (#32284601)
And that's one of the problems. If I say I'm not interested, I'm not interested.