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      9 months ago

      Yes but one can be less bad than the others. Considering TikTok is the only large (non-Western) social media today that gives a voice to Palestinians being actually genocided (unlike a lot of fake genocide narratives West manufactures), that makes a clear humane distinction. Facebook has documents that tell they want to actively target kids for social media consumption, and also propel rightwing politics a lot.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah I disagree. Ticktok content is way to short to have any meaningful impact. Its just dopamine over and over.

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          …and Vines (USA) was the original social media that introduced this format, if you are old enough to remember 6 second clips post Y2K. TikTok merely introduced an unrivaled recommendation algorithm on top of it, similar to what Spotify has for music streaming that gets a lot of praise.

          There are privacy problems with most of them, but atleast I am able to check a TikTok link in browser that friends send me, without it ever harassing me to create account to “view more content” and get surveilled forever.

          The dopamine conversation is a very long one. I have a way too simple and disconnected life. Recommend Huberman’s podcast on dopamine if you want to dive into the biochemistry.

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            Ah, I didn’t realize you could use Ticktok in the browser. Anyway I personally won’t use such platforms as they are way to addicting for me.

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              I do not use it either, only open links friends send me occasionally. Being able to do that accountless in browser is great. Never bothered to make an account or install it.

              I find all the social medias and most technology incredibly unhealthy and control it a lot. Even go as far as desaturating and making my screens anti-glare and brightness in accordance with room lighting. Never even purchased an AMOLED screen device due to its harmful effects on vision.

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            Yeah and nobody in their right mind would ever try to use Vine for journalism. I’m confused why you think Tiktok is different.

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              If you would have learnt anything in the past decade of social media, it is that these social media companies evolve within months. Telegram became a thing in 2013, Discord in 2015 and TikTok in 2016.

              Vines would have simply increased the limit to 10-15 seconds and it would suddenly be used for journalism. TikTok was originally only 3 (not 30) seconds, now it has a varied time limit upto 10 minutes. Instagram and YouTube copied the TikTok/Vines format. Back then, Instagram also copied Snapchat’s Stories.