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Given the brainrot it seems to be gifting the world more countries should be banning it.

by ActionHank 4y ago

endisneigh 4y ago
How is tiktok any more or less brain rot than say hacker news?
- edgyquant 4y ago
  This is not a good faith question.
  - endisneigh 4y ago
    Why not? I’m genuinely curious.
- elil17 4y ago
  If you've used TikTok, you know
  - endisneigh 4y ago
    I follow chemistry on tiktok. Is that mindless? https://www.tiktok.com/@chemteacherphil?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@chemteacherphil?lang=en
    - elil17 4y ago
      It’s the for you page that becomes mindless. Many great individual tiktokers
- coffeebeqn 4y ago
  One is industrial strength endless stream of mindless shortform entertainment that some of the best ML engineers work tirelessly to make more addicting. The other is a software and startup page that’s basically from the 90s that gets new content roughly about once a day.
  - endisneigh 4y ago
    You could definitely browse hacker news as long as you could tiktok. In both cases there’s plenty of content if you actually go to the source links. Mindless seems to be an opinion. What’s mindless about it?
  - ch4s3 4y ago
    > more addicting I think it's clear(from research) that problematic social media use (defined as preoccupation and compulsion to excessively engage in social media platforms despite negative consequences) is bad for you mental health, but calling it an addiction feels like a stretch. It also isn't clear that it's much worse than staring at reality tv all day. I also seems like rates of problematic use among adolescents is in the low single digits basically everywhere that people use social media. Given the prevalence of social media use, it's not all that catastrophic that some 4% of users are over doing it. Americans at least seem to be more likely to drink excessively than have problematic relationships with social media.
- renewiltord 4y ago
  HN has noprocrast, but otherwise yeah, same as. Only thing is that at the end, your rotted brain can now talk about Google discontinuing products, Apple CSAM, and Amazon inventory commingling. You will also be unable to dance.
  - riffraff 4y ago
    Fwiw, I sometimes use TikTok and none of my content is dancing, it's mostly food, pop science and people doing epoxy art. I know there's TikTok dances but they never appear in my feed.
    - fragmede 4y ago
      Also fwiw, for healthy adults, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity a week, or a bit over 10 mins a day, and dancing, especially with other people, is a fun way of getting those 10 mins in.
noncoml 4y ago
Stop advocating banning things that don’t fit our belief system/ethics/worldview. No more asking to ban TikTok, Twitter, Trump, Biden. No more banning. D'you understand?! Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say Jehovah!
wnevets 4y ago
Do you also believe the world's countries should ban reddit? It's front page is littered with content taken directly from TikTok.

Given the brainrot it seems to be gifting the world more countries should be banning it.

endisneigh 4y ago

How is tiktok any more or less brain rot than say hacker news?

edgyquant 4y ago
This is not a good faith question.
- endisneigh 4y ago
  Why not? I’m genuinely curious.
elil17 4y ago
If you've used TikTok, you know
- endisneigh 4y ago
  I follow chemistry on tiktok. Is that mindless? https://www.tiktok.com/@chemteacherphil?lang=en https://www.tiktok.com/@chemteacherphil?lang=en
  - elil17 4y ago
    It’s the for you page that becomes mindless. Many great individual tiktokers
coffeebeqn 4y ago
One is industrial strength endless stream of mindless shortform entertainment that some of the best ML engineers work tirelessly to make more addicting. The other is a software and startup page that’s basically from the 90s that gets new content roughly about once a day.
- endisneigh 4y ago
  You could definitely browse hacker news as long as you could tiktok. In both cases there’s plenty of content if you actually go to the source links. Mindless seems to be an opinion. What’s mindless about it?
- ch4s3 4y ago
  > more addicting I think it's clear(from research) that problematic social media use (defined as preoccupation and compulsion to excessively engage in social media platforms despite negative consequences) is bad for you mental health, but calling it an addiction feels like a stretch. It also isn't clear that it's much worse than staring at reality tv all day. I also seems like rates of problematic use among adolescents is in the low single digits basically everywhere that people use social media. Given the prevalence of social media use, it's not all that catastrophic that some 4% of users are over doing it. Americans at least seem to be more likely to drink excessively than have problematic relationships with social media.
renewiltord 4y ago
HN has noprocrast, but otherwise yeah, same as. Only thing is that at the end, your rotted brain can now talk about Google discontinuing products, Apple CSAM, and Amazon inventory commingling. You will also be unable to dance.
- riffraff 4y ago
  Fwiw, I sometimes use TikTok and none of my content is dancing, it's mostly food, pop science and people doing epoxy art. I know there's TikTok dances but they never appear in my feed.
  - fragmede 4y ago
    Also fwiw, for healthy adults, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity a week, or a bit over 10 mins a day, and dancing, especially with other people, is a fun way of getting those 10 mins in.

noncoml 4y ago

Stop advocating banning things that don’t fit our belief system/ethics/worldview. No more asking to ban TikTok, Twitter, Trump, Biden. No more banning. D'you understand?! Even... and I want to make this absolutely clear... even if they do say Jehovah!

wnevets 4y ago

Do you also believe the world's countries should ban reddit? It's front page is littered with content taken directly from TikTok.