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> Is there some social signal they aren’t getting from my setup Honestly from the description you wrote it just does not seem like TikTok is the right platform
by belval 4y ago
> Is there some social signal they aren’t getting from my setup
Honestly from the description you wrote it just does not seem like TikTok is the right platform for you.
What I like about it is the light-heartedness of it, I don't see political content at all and I wouldn't really be interested if I got any as it's a pretty terrible platform for news and hot takes. Instead, I get cooking/funny/cute/surreal meme videos that match the Gen Z humor. It distracts me from gloomy Twitter/Facebook feeds.
It's not an app for serious content, it's a dopamine treadmill.
- mattnewton 4y agoOh don’t get me wrong, I like surreal gen z humor videos I’ve seen recycled as YouTube shorts. I just can’t get the TikTok algorithm to match me with them? It basically just shows an endless stream of young women lip syncing (not that there is anything wrong with that in the abstract, just definitely not personalized to me)
- belval 4y agoHmmm interesting, make sure to like more than once when some content is interesting to you. Additionally, follow and bookmark stuff that you enjoyed (that seems to play some role in the recommendation). TikTok also seems to do on-the-fly recommendation to match your mood, so for example if I take my girlfriend's account to browse it, I will usually have to spend 5 minutes skipping dance/hair tutorials before getting to the content I like. It seems similar to Spotify's random mode, where it is random but only to some extent within a genre and will "find" the genre that matches your current mood.
- fragmede 4y agoTry using the app’s search feature to seed it with content you do like.