yeah im about to hop off tiktok lol. every user that types a response is just dumber than the last. doesn’t matter the video topic. Some 30 year experienced chef cooking? sorry, Fatweeny69 knows more than that guy.
car driving down the road? sorry. smoldickmas will type 4 paragraphs how something was wrong while driving. it’s getting so old lmao, and impossible to converse at all.
I stopped using it when it was briefly ‘banned’ then ‘saved by Trump™️’ and while I do think the platform has (had?) more merit than people give it, it only took a few days for my brain to reset, and now though I have picked it back up here and there, I always get quickly overwhelmed and put it back down. It’s nice that Loops and I guess Bluesky are trying to fill that gap, but I think it’s probably best they don’t succeed in copying the Tiktok algorithm. Though I learned and laughed a lot on the app, it was at the cost of having to sort any real information from multitudes of misinformation and a crap ton of my time wasted, and it left my dopamine receptors completely unable to motivate me to do anything else but watch short videos for a quick hit. I feel much better sticking to platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon that I enjoy but I could give or take. And like you said, the discourse is just abysmal.
yeah im about to hop off tiktok lol. every user that types a response is just dumber than the last. doesn’t matter the video topic. Some 30 year experienced chef cooking? sorry, Fatweeny69 knows more than that guy. car driving down the road? sorry. smoldickmas will type 4 paragraphs how something was wrong while driving. it’s getting so old lmao, and impossible to converse at all.
I stopped using it when it was briefly ‘banned’ then ‘saved by Trump™️’ and while I do think the platform has (had?) more merit than people give it, it only took a few days for my brain to reset, and now though I have picked it back up here and there, I always get quickly overwhelmed and put it back down. It’s nice that Loops and I guess Bluesky are trying to fill that gap, but I think it’s probably best they don’t succeed in copying the Tiktok algorithm. Though I learned and laughed a lot on the app, it was at the cost of having to sort any real information from multitudes of misinformation and a crap ton of my time wasted, and it left my dopamine receptors completely unable to motivate me to do anything else but watch short videos for a quick hit. I feel much better sticking to platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon that I enjoy but I could give or take. And like you said, the discourse is just abysmal.