misk OP , 7 months ago

TikTok is pretty interesting due to how different it is from other video platforms and there are loads of new forms of interaction that it enabled. Even if you’re not interested in using it I can recommend this video essay by Errant Signal to explain some phenomena that emerge from how TikTok works, like music being core part of their memes and weird niches that their algorithm can move you to.

I’m nearly 40 but gave it a try not be that old geezer complaining how D&D promotes satanism and found it pretty neat after calibration period. That meant dismissing plenty of videos with teens twerking but now it’s just one of the places I visit to watch videos, among YouTube and Nebula.

Yeah, it probably spies on you, and so do other tech giants. If you think that your data is worth more to CCP than your own government I have a bridge to sell you. And if you believe that for-profit company like Meta won’t sell your data to CCP when TikTok can get away with this then how about one more bridge?