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It boils down to the distinction between people who: 1. want to get content precisely tailored to their interests (high signal to noise ratio), at the expense o
by ArekDymalski 4y ago
It boils down to the distinction between people who:
1. want to get content precisely tailored to their interests (high signal to noise ratio), at the expense od time invested in finding and curating sources and limited chances od discovering news stuff.
2. want to get content quickly, without much of the hassle at the expense of potential spam/uninteresting stuff.
Something like turning the radio om vs gathering and playing own records collection.
- satvikpendem 4y agoThis is interesting because TikTok has the uncanny ability to both do 1 and 2. It brings you content precisely tailored to your interests via the algorithm, and it does so in a fast way (some might say too fast). I guess the general audience wants the same two things except they place even less weight on manual curation.
- randomdata 4y agoDoes it? I suppose TikTok did a good job of recognizing what I was interested in during the first day or two of using it, but now it keeps pushing that same content to me even though I've long moved on to new interests. You can only watch variations on the same video over and over so many times before it gets really old. For the sake of discussion I opened the app again to see if anything had changed since I last used it. Still, I got the same kind of content that bored me away from the app last time. I'm not sure that's all that uncanny. Pretty much what you'd expect from a mediocre algorithm. I don't really see RSS as being a curation channel as much as a notification channel, though. What RSS provides is a means to notify you when 'professional' curators have curated new content for you.