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> if your hobbies are really popular like rock climbing or craft beer or Harry Potter What would you say your hobbies are? There are obviously some who wouldn

> if your hobbies are really popular like rock climbing or craft beer or Harry Potter What would you say your hobbies are? There are obviously some who wouldn't find much of value in TikTok because the nature of the content (3 minute videos) cannot deliver in-depth technical material about a complex topic, for example. The medium is clearly very different from those that you found addictive, so blaming the algorithm for not delivering good content might be a case of blaming apples for not being oranges. I've had two separate experiences with TikTok - in the first one I ended up as you describe, seeing mostly content that I found boring or useless. The second time I made a mental note to not interact in any way with content that seemed in the same category - I would move on to another video as fast as I could. That helped a lot, and now I enjoy at least every other video I see. But then again, I don't use TikTok for hobbies, it's mostly for generic interesting stuff.

trh0awayman 5y ago
I think some hobbies work really well for the format. At one point in my life, I was interested in chicken breeding. I could see that being really easy to capture in TikTok format. I'm also a long distance runner - so that's a pretty popular hobby, but I don't know that I'd ever watch a video about it. But I'm primarily interested in early Christian history and treasure hunting/specific antiquities. I'm interested in virtual worlds like Ultima Online. There are some accounts that deal with those topics, but I'd mostly get general history videos and gem/mineral hunting videos, which I'm not really interested in - at all. Like you said, I would occassionally see a video that was outside of my hobbies that I found interesting. But maybe TikTok is telling me something else: maybe I'm just a very dry boring person these days.

trh0awayman 5y ago

I think some hobbies work really well for the format. At one point in my life, I was interested in chicken breeding. I could see that being really easy to capture in TikTok format. I'm also a long distance runner - so that's a pretty popular hobby, but I don't know that I'd ever watch a video about it. But I'm primarily interested in early Christian history and treasure hunting/specific antiquities. I'm interested in virtual worlds like Ultima Online. There are some accounts that deal with those topics, but I'd mostly get general history videos and gem/mineral hunting videos, which I'm not really interested in - at all. Like you said, I would occassionally see a video that was outside of my hobbies that I found interesting. But maybe TikTok is telling me something else: maybe I'm just a very dry boring person these days.