I never use Tick Tock but when I saw this headline I decided to sign up for this. All I saw was a bunch of it Arabic writing and Arabic posts. It might be popular but it's not popular in North America. Deleted immediately.
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Why would anyone use TikTok or any clone like that to begin with? Do they want their brain to rot?
Anything to get that dopamine drip from the Black Rectangle
You say on another dopamine drop website
Oh i know
I'm more blaming the system than the user. The system is designed to be as addicting as possible. Literally a century of addiction research into drugs and gambling, all used to squeeze every drop of engagement from the user
To a point. At least we’re reading and using our brains more on these text-based sites!
See, White Rectangle, you swipe like this: "oh. oh quite. oh dear. oh no. aw. and how."
But with Black Rectangle, you swipe like: "yo, hol' da commentz, Imma bounce your pinky up in this!"
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Back before the alogorithm became what it is today, it was pretty good, I actually saw stuff I was interested in from small creators
Reels only shows ppl with hella followers and views;, but algorithm is a lot better at showing me my interests (on the feed, if you scroll on any reel it shows irrelevant stuff)
From Wikipedia: “
UpScrolled was launched in June 2025 by Recursive Methods Pty Ltd.[2][3] It was founded by Issam Hijazi, a Palestinian-Australian app developer who previously worked for IBM and Oracle.[3][4] UpScrolled is backed by the Tech for Palestine incubator.
So much for being impartial.
This doesn't necessarily mean they're not being impartial.
If a side's position is the truth, they're going to support impartiality, because they want the truth to be spread, which supports their side.
TikTok is probably about to start moderating heavily in favour of a pro-Israel/anti-Palestine bias, just like other Western social media platforms. It's possible that all a startup would have to do is not do this to secure funding from Palestinian investors.
My only question is whether they'll allow progressive types on their platform long-term.
From what I saw they are impartial but have an enormous moderation problem. Most likely due to being overwhelmed by the influx of new users.
I feel like every platform outside of the Fediverse is like this nowadays.
How many quick short videos can one consume before they become tired of them? What is the bizarre appeal to that crap instead of actually doing something?
Yes I am typing here on Lemmy, you could make an argument, but damn you see ten short videos you have seen them all.
For me it's news snippets, recipe ideas, 3d print ideas, and short form comedy. I look at it maybe 15min daily. Sometimes days without. My wife probably does 2hrs a day (stay home mother, homeschool teacher, honored caregiver). For her it's the entertainment that can be quickly put down, little investment involved.
I can't imagine. I can get all of that elsewhere, video is such a slow delivery....
There is something just wrong with quick cuts and fast in your face stuff. I swear it's a simple dumbing down plus dopamine injection. It can't be good for you.
It’s not! It’s terrible for you! I miss the early days of TikTok when everyone just shit on it for being cringy dances.
The fuck is UpScrolled? I thought the consensus was to use RedNote?
There was a chart posted here yesterday where they're saying loop.Video I don't think there's any agreement on anything.
I have high hopes for the fediverse, I just hope we're able to solve the abuse problem before mass adoption. That Fediverse Chick nonsense was too much.
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^ You dropped this.
Wut. Look at the posts, it's right there.
I remember awhile back that the RedNote community rejected the Western newcomers because they were obnoxious. Oh, and the Chinese user base is not very fond of LGBT people or culture.
I'm still on Rednote, I mostly see content from users in the USA, UK, Australia, Guandong and Bejing. They are all so nice, they're just like us. Even the mean comments are funny. Also plenty of lesbians there lmfao.
Of course China has their own extreme nationals, but those comments get deleted just as the MAGA ones do.
MAGAs burn up there like vampires splashed with Holy Water, so it's currently my favorite short form video platform.
Idk what about the people who stayed. I just remember how the original wave from TikTok was rejected, and how there were a lot oblivious western TikTok users who were shocked that the Chinese user base on Rednote didn't embrace them with open arms when they invaded.
Yeah I was there for the first wave. I have no evidence for my next claim, but the bad people really just felt like bored 4channers.
Its website says the platform will remain “impartial” to political agendas, won’t shadowban users or content, and will “uphold social responsibility.”
I don't feel, in this day and age, like you can be politically impartial (i.e. allow fascists to use your platform to spread propaganda) while simultaneously upholding social responsibility (i.e. not allow fascists to use your platform to spread propaganda).
If you look into the founder, you'll quickly realize that he's very much biased and has a lot of agendas to push, and I have no doubt in mind that this is reflected in his platform.
Yeah, I gave it a shot. I opened the app, and immediately scrolled past a “Jews are secretly ruling the world” conspiracy theory post from a user named something like @ItsAlwaysTheJews… Okay, maybe a fluke. Not a great first impression, but let’s see what else the app has to offer. Then a few posts later there was a “Hitler was right about the Jews” post.
So yeah, it has definitely fallen prey to the Nazi Bar problem.
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Isn't this almost exactly what Elon said?
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