The appeal to TikTok isn't just that it zeroes in on my attention, it's that the content is mixed and matched and cross-referenced with each other. So it feels

The appeal to TikTok isn't just that it zeroes in on my attention, it's that the content is mixed and matched and cross-referenced with each other. So it feels like a special place where you can only find that content. Aggregating news seems, to me at least, not special, and something Google News already does. It "magically" knows what my current interests and shows me lots of sources of that. For everything else, I enjoy the Reddit model. Zeroing in on someone's attention for long form content that looks legitimate also scares me as that's how conspiracy theories spread.