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Tiktok sucks (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Parsani@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I installed it out of curiosity, and God damn, this is the worst form of social media yet. It seems like it's designed to accomplish two things: keep me scrolling, and eventually make me depressed. It's basically paralyzing to use.

I didn't make an account, so I guess its a bit like looking at the front page of YouTube, which is also terrible. But out of all the social media I've used in my life tiktok seems like the worst because of how much it sucks you in, and the type of content on it. Runner up is Instagram, but I deleted my account there years ago and never looked back.

Call me a boomer or w/e, but this shit melts your brain even more than everything else already does.

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[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Yes! Tiktok's comment system is absolute dogshit.

And yes, it sucks as a search engine. There is limited usefulness for things like "cityname restaurants" because it brings up videos made in that area, that can sometimes show off the vibes of the place better than what's on Google. But it's like yeah, I will see 5-10 restaurants out of 200 in that area. And Google is already adding in the same type of social posts anyway.

Personally I would use TikTok a whole FUCK of a lot more if they gave me any control over the length of the video I want to see. If I am say, cooking, and want to listen to something, I have to just have gotten lucky with one long ass tiktok video, but once that is over, I have to use YouTube. TikTok also pushed and pushed people to make horizontal videos and long videos, but unlike youtube that lets you jump in and out of Shorts, there's no such thing as TikTok Longs.