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The most praised thing in TikTok is how they tailor videos to each user. While Insta or Facebook rely on virality, TikTok is able to show you videos barely like

The most praised thing in TikTok is how they tailor videos to each user. While Insta or Facebook rely on virality, TikTok is able to show you videos barely liked and shared, and you somehow like them. I remember reading about a guy experimenting with liking only long and high quality videos, skipping short and cheap ones. After a dozen of visualizations TikTok got the cues and started showing exactly what the guy had planned. After five years in LinkedIn saying the plain truth, they still don't get me at all, and they just keep my feed filled with the most "interacted" content.

firecall 4y ago
Twitter is just as bad. It fills my feed with inflammatory US based political tweets, and I'm not interested. If a tech journalists decides to reply on a thread about the latest GoP nonsense, then as an Australian that is interested in tech news, I don't want to hear it!
- slenk 4y ago
  Frankly, as a US citizen, I don't want my tech journalists talking about the GOP either.
- wishfish 4y ago
  Twitter's algorithm isn't front and center as long as you're set to "latest tweets". It's reduced to the sidebar where it guesses (badly) what trends I'll be interested in. On mobile, I don't even see the sidebar or trends unless I deliberately seek them out. It's one thing I like about Twitter. All I see are the people I followed and the people they retweet. If one of them gets annoying, unfollow or mute. And it's all in chronological order. Unless I'm missing something, nothing is getting filtered or pushed by some annoying algorithm. For your situation, you might want to create a list of words for Twitter to block for you. That might help you avoid certain topics.
1337biz 4y ago
I really like that about it too. I swipe all negative, political or polished content away and my feed feels more enjoyable than any other content before. No endless negative emotion trigger baits like Twitter/FB or overpolished bullshit world like Instagram. It delivers the weird and wonderful world that I like.
spoonjim 4y ago
Everyone says this but except for the hot babes in their bikinis the TikTok algorithm does a TERRIBLE job of seeing what I want to look at, to the point where I use the app less than 15 minutes a month. There's always something absolutely fucking disgusting I see within ~25 swipes or so that makes me quit the app. If they just stuck to the babes I would probably watch a lot more.

firecall 4y ago

Twitter is just as bad. It fills my feed with inflammatory US based political tweets, and I'm not interested. If a tech journalists decides to reply on a thread about the latest GoP nonsense, then as an Australian that is interested in tech news, I don't want to hear it!

slenk 4y ago
Frankly, as a US citizen, I don't want my tech journalists talking about the GOP either.
wishfish 4y ago
Twitter's algorithm isn't front and center as long as you're set to "latest tweets". It's reduced to the sidebar where it guesses (badly) what trends I'll be interested in. On mobile, I don't even see the sidebar or trends unless I deliberately seek them out. It's one thing I like about Twitter. All I see are the people I followed and the people they retweet. If one of them gets annoying, unfollow or mute. And it's all in chronological order. Unless I'm missing something, nothing is getting filtered or pushed by some annoying algorithm. For your situation, you might want to create a list of words for Twitter to block for you. That might help you avoid certain topics.

1337biz 4y ago

I really like that about it too. I swipe all negative, political or polished content away and my feed feels more enjoyable than any other content before. No endless negative emotion trigger baits like Twitter/FB or overpolished bullshit world like Instagram. It delivers the weird and wonderful world that I like.

spoonjim 4y ago

Everyone says this but except for the hot babes in their bikinis the TikTok algorithm does a TERRIBLE job of seeing what I want to look at, to the point where I use the app less than 15 minutes a month. There's always something absolutely fucking disgusting I see within ~25 swipes or so that makes me quit the app. If they just stuck to the babes I would probably watch a lot more.