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Had to leave Twitter when it became a Nazi site, I can leave TikTok to I guess.
I sometimes feel like the only mf around who doesn't and never used tiktok. From the very start it just gave off bad vibes, and then all the news started coming out about it rotting your attention span away, data collection and russian manipulation winning hearts of young people, which pretty much confirmed my suspicions. Ironically reddit feels like a much safer platform than tiktok.
You know, given how exploitative and harmful TikTok has been from the start, it might have been better never to use it at all.
I'm guilty of being on TikTok too, mainly used to keep up with a few artists I listen to, but at the end of the day, the platform is just another exploitative data-harvesting machine.
I uhhh never used it to begin with so I’m good boss
nice 😆 💟
I never used either. Never really understood the culture of gormlessly scrolling through mind-numbing content.
But then I also gave up broadcast TV before even Netflix was popular. Just spent a small fortune on bargain bin DVDs instead.
me nervously doom-scrolling on lemmy via voyager 👀
I've been averse to trends like this, but I did get on Facebook and Insta this summer at the urging of some friends (I run a nonprofit so it's useful to network). By last week I had both apps on my phone and was just numbscrolling through Insta videos. Realized my mental health had gone to absolute shit in weeks. Deleted the apps andI'm feeling myself again.
It really is dangerous what they've created, if I didn't have ambition, I would be right there zombified.
It was less a "cultural thing" and more a functional drift. From the RSS feed to Web2.0 timelines to feed by preference to The Algorithm of ad-promoted content.
Like with email, it wasn't always just a fountain of spam. Our systems have been deliberately and predatorially enshittified.
It's mainly the kids and low information adults who are on Tiktok, that's why it's popular.
There's a great deal of real news that goes through the app. It's the majority of the content I see.