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Others posted great reasons to dislike TikTok. I hear you, but I'll miss it because of how great the recommendations are/were for me. Instagram's recommendation
by dmos62 3y ago
Others posted great reasons to dislike TikTok. I hear you, but I'll miss it because of how great the recommendations are/were for me. Instagram's recommendation engine is in a lower league in my experience.
It's important to click "not interested" on meme videos for both platforms though. Instagram keeps reverting to meme videos for me (probably because my habits get away from me), but my TikTok account never gives me memes or what I consider low value content.
I wish there was something more like HN, in that it's text-centric, doesn't put my dopamine mechanics into overdrive, but with the content multitude and recommendation accuracy of TikTok. HN is great, but tech stuff isn't the only stuff I care about, and I've not seen good manual moderation scale beyond a frontpage or so.
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y agoRead a book. Or watch TV, stream a movie, documentary, an audio book, play a video game. There are plenty of substitutes to media consumption/entertainment, and some are actually good for your mental health.
- bdangubic 3y agoExcellent suggestions though I think we should then ban the whole internet and just read and watch TV
- rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y agoNo one is arguing that the "whole internet" is a propaganda machine
- aprilthird2021 3y agoThe Internet is a propaganda machine, and the US and its pesky First Amendment actually allows foreign governments to post whatever propaganda they want on there and for US Citizens to consume it if they choose to. (Note: There are exceptions for anything the government classifies as "terrorism")
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoMaybe just ban the post 2004 internet
- archagon 3y agoThis is the very definition of patronizing.
- dmos62 3y agoYour comment feels like a knee jerk reaction.
- underseacables 3y agoBut ..it's not going anywhere. This does not "ban" tiktok it bans CCP ownership. You'll be ok.
- dmos62 3y ago> sell-or-be-banned Do you expect TikTok to sell? Or am I missing something?