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I have this same question. I've tried using Tiktok twice. Both times I was as honest as I can be about my interests and both times it quickly devolves into stuf
by grog454 4y ago
I have this same question. I've tried using Tiktok twice. Both times I was as honest as I can be about my interests and both times it quickly devolves into stuff I simply don't care about and will never deliberately take time out of my day to seek out.
Just had a thought... is there a psychology to "idle browsing" that I just don't have? I never browse the Google Play store for apps but more than 50% of users discover my apps this way. I never browse Netflix for recommendations. I almost never browse Youtube's recommendations unless I'm listening to a playlist and want to discover similar music (while doing something else).
In almost all of these contexts I discover content through word of mouth or browsing discussion forums and search for exactly what I'm looking for.
- darkwater 4y agoFrom what you explain, you are clearly an outlier. If on one side of the bell curve there are the "whales", you are probably... a plancton?
- wutbrodo 4y agoI put a couple of cumulative hours into it, purely to seed/discover the supposedly-fantastic recommendation algorithm. I was drowning in videos of cute couples doing inane things until I started doing the couple extra clicks to indicate Not Interested. After that it got a bit more diverse, but I somehow don't seem to have left seemingly-generic content behind, and at no point did I get any inkling of the "just one more video" flow that I've heard about.