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I used to work at tiktok on recommendation. While we definitely do better exploration than some places there’s still a very clear top heavy bias. Part of that i

I used to work at tiktok on recommendation. While we definitely do better exploration than some places there’s still a very clear top heavy bias. Part of that is just content quality. A lot of content is worse than others for any form of media. But while we are better at showing small things than say youtube, there remain very clear tiktok stars. Even for smaller areas you will still have some creators lead in that area.

mrtksn 5y ago
I get quite a bit fresh content in the sense that it’s fresh for me(but popular otherwise) or fresh content that has a very few views and likes. In contrast, twitter is horrible because I’m in a bubble and everyone I’m exposed to is there to push their agenda. Instagram is fine but it’s essentially place where people I know and I don’t know pretend to be living the good life. It’s boring. The content discovery never worked for me. Youtube is actually great in terms of content but the discovery revolves around the “more from the same” which makes discovery of something fresh pretty hard. TikTok is not perfect but it’s the only platform that actually seems to create a stream of stuff that I like and are not the same. So , congrats.