Hexbear

13 points

2 years ago

TikTok is the absolute worst way to ingest information. Enormous distracting waste of visual space in an intended audio media. Sped up dialogue to meet artificial time constants imposed by the algorithm. Spastic delivery to grab your attention. Little to no analysis. And no time to digest the thought before you’re on to the next thing.

Its like drinking out of a fire hose full of piss.

NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net

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6 points

2 years ago

Basically the video equivalent of Twitter

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4 points

2 years ago

Twitter is (for the most part) brief. You don’t have some dork dressed like a literal clown doing a dance to keep your attention focused on the text splashed across the screen.

You certainly don’t have a literal fucking timer embedded into the content, so people won’t reflexively scroll past at the prospect of hearing something longer than 60 seconds.

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2 points

2 years ago

I mean the text part of Twitter is very character limited (or was if you want to pay 8$/month) and it’s still quite attention grabby in my experience, just in different ways largely a result of the different medium.

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2 points

2 years ago

Until front-loaded all the marks into the comment stream and implemented pay-to-post annoying graphics, it wasn’t too bad. If nothing else, you can just kinda scroll past text. The TikTok videos just try to dominate your senses until you’re paralyzed into submission.

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NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net

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3 points

2 years ago

Fair enough I guess. Didn’t mean to say they’re exactly the same of course, and Tiktok’s userbase seeming being a bunch of 14 year olds definitely doesn’t help it fare well in comparisons to other platforms, just felt there were definitely some commonalities, particularly when it comes to the way political discussions especially are constrained and made worse (in fact I think Tiktok comments have a character limit of 150 which is even worse than Twitter is nowadays).

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2 points

2 years ago

Tiktok’s userbase seeming being a bunch of 14 year olds definitely doesn’t help it

Every New App starts out with a young user base. Idk how long that’ll last. In ten years, will TikToks still be for teenagers or will it be populated by a bunch of Elder Millennials and GenXers, like Twitter?

I’m more critical of the medium itself, which seems like it was designed first-and-foremost to deliver ads. And, as a result, everything on the site feels like they’re trying to be ads.

I think Tiktok comments have a character limit of 150

I’d forgotten they even had comments. Don’t think I’ve ever actually looked at a TikTok comment thread, but I have a sinking feeling it looks like the worst corners of YouTube.

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