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Re:Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends by che_shirecat on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @11:15PM (#32491904)
In this spirit, I think Tiktok would actually be a tremendously good matchmaker for finding either friends or romantic partners. I think a lot of their recommendation AI actually figures out what you might like ahead of actually showing it to you, by trying to sort you into a cohort of people with very similar tastes. Which is why as a new user its sometimes scary how Tiktok can almost predict what you might like. E.g. people into cars, 30-40 yrs old, rural probably also like DIY.
Re:Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends by Breza on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:30AM (#32646938)
That's a good point. A simple k nearest neighbors search of users would likely turn up very similar people to you even if you don't explicitly include any demographics.