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Anecdotal to myself. I shamefully sometimes use TikTok, I particularly like recipe clips and even I noticed something in the last week, most noticeably around t
by infecto 9mo ago
Anecdotal to myself. I shamefully sometimes use TikTok, I particularly like recipe clips and even I noticed something in the last week, most noticeably around this weekend where the algorithm for recommendations changed. It’s like they completely wiped my preferences. I try not to watch anything political so I cannot say much about censorship of content but something was noticeable in the last week.
- torben-friis 9mo agoHave you been using it for long? I no longer use TikTok, but I was pretty hooked for a while, and I felt those “waves” every now and then. It was pretty noticeable because each time I started getting extreme right political content from my country, and I neither consume anything local nor right wing content.
- infecto 9mo agoYes I have and this reset was very different than anything I have experienced. I would like a specific recipe and then they the feed would show me someone else’s attempt of that recipe. I haves used the app for years off and on.
- davidmurdoch 9mo agoIt does this all the time. I think it is called "exploration injection". It increases engagement by trying to prevent boredom.
- infecto 9mo agoIt’s amazes how confident people will describe your lived experiences and say you are wrong. No this was entirely different and coincided in time with the complaints of censorship.
- davidmurdoch 9mo agoI said you were right. You might need to go touch grass man. [Edit]: I shouldn't have made the "touch grass" comment. Sorry.
- lolc 9mo agoFrom my read you said something different from what OP said. They voiced that there was a wiping of preference that was noticeable, where you said "it does this all the time." Sure both can describe the same thing, but they don't have to be. Why double down instead of accepting that this time it might be different?
- Dylan16807 9mo ago"I said you were right" is not doubling down, and looks like an accurate description of the conversation to me. OP got hostile for no good reason. If it's different, they can talk about how it's different instead of going on the attack against someone that listened and tried to provide information.
- davidmurdoch 9mo agoThanks. Though I do admit that my swipe back at them about "touching grass" was out of line.
- infecto 9mo agoNo hostility just amazing how I can share a datapoint as a long time user that something did interrupt the feed engine in a negative way and I get told it’s normal when in my experience it’s not.
- Dylan16807 9mo agoI don't understand. Why is that amazing? Sloppy analogy time: Imagine you came in and said your vacuum cleaner broke and someone said "Yeah, that brand loses suction after six months, it's obnoxious." They're telling you it's normal for that type of vacuum, but they're not calling you wrong, they're trying to agree with you. If your problem is different, go ahead and correct them, but they're not denying your lived experience! (And don't say they should have inferred you knew about that behavior and known you meant this was different. That's too close to expecting someone to read your mind. Especially when your original post didn't mention you were a long time user with enough dedication to notice that.)
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- thewebguyd 9mo agoSame experience here, and also I noticed several channels I used to be following I was no longer following after the hand offs. The feed is completely different now. Something definitely broke.
- cardamomo 9mo agoI noticed exactly the same thing. I don't recall which day it started (probably this past Sunday), but it was as if a switch flipped. My For You Page no longer has anything to do with my preferences. I'm familiar with Tiktok nudging me in different directions in the past, but I was always able to steer it back to videos I was interested in within 10-15 minutes. Three days later, and it's as if Tiktok not only has forgotten everything about my watch history, it also hasn't learned. That said, it doesn't seem to be entirely about politics. I had a mix of political/protest related content, native plant content, and woodworking videos on my For You Page. None of those are showing up for me.
- infecto 9mo agoVery similar for me as well. And yes no connection to the politics angle. It was very pronounced for me because I would like a video and then every other video it showed me was someone else’s version of it. It was very bizarre.