Quickly my For You page was transformed. I saw long thoughtful videos on motivation, psychology, science, and philosophy. I listened to excerpts of lectures on

Quickly my For You page was transformed. I saw long thoughtful videos on motivation, psychology, science, and philosophy. I listened to excerpts of lectures on Stoicism or Zen Buddhism, and speeches by enigmatic Indian meditation gurus. It figured out I was a software engineer and showed me many jokes or insights about work. At one point I was hunting for a job and TikTok started showing me interview tips. I witnessed drawings and paintings and animations by countless visual artists. I found myself zooming through trippy 3D fractals while listening to Alan Watts. I appreciate the screenshots because they show a side of TikTok I wasn't aware of. I've still up to this point managed to avoid ever installing or browsing TikTok. The few tiktoks I've seen were clips forwarded to me. I'm sure, like Twitter, it's full of awful content by default that you can learn to filter and fine tune until it feeds you good content, but that's exactly why I'm avoiding it. I never even had a twitter account until 2020(that I started following out of covid lockdown boredom) and 3 months later I was becoming really heated politically and felt like America was collapsing. Reading about a new social network is like reading about a new flavor of crack. I'm sure it feels nice but No Thanks!