I felt this way with instagram. My phone can barely handle the web app and you can’t even replay the video without an account. Truly garbage UX
Im pretty sure that meta purposefully makes the mobile websites for all their products as shit as possible to get people to use the real apps instead
That’s what literally all social media sites do. It is far more profitable for people to be using your app than your mobile website. Apps make it much easier to harvest data and corral the user into the exact experience you want them to have (ads, suggestions, etc).
I know not many people here are going back to Reddit but just for a second, open your mobile browser, disable the add-ons if it’s firefox, and go look at Reddit currently. Within the last few weeks they have absolutely massacred it. Like, truly, it is astoundingly bad now. The original mobile redesign of the site was already terrible, but this new-new-mobile reddit is so painfully bad that the only conceivable reason for its existence is to get people to give up and use the app.
Man i really miss old reddit, what a shame. I hope lemmy continues to grow, none of my hobbies have active communities yet like they do on redddit
same, idk what to talk abt with you all lol
But I’m here and we’re chillin
That’s why I use desktop mode on most websites
I refuse to install their app(Facebook) phone on my phone. They have basically broken the mobile site once again, so I’ve just stopped using it. Much easier.
Any phone can barely handle the web app
I’m pissed when ppl send me links for it and they don’t play in mobile firefox and I’m forced to open chrome.
Wait until you are on a clever chinaphone OS that unloads the previous app while you play this.
I just shared this with my wife, since she has started sharing TikTok lately.
Sorry to hear your marriage is on the rocks mate. Hopefully it’s just a phase.
She sent this as a reply:
It’s too late for me. Save yourselves!
Mine’s been doing it too even though she knows how much I absolutely despise tiktok… There’s a reason I don’t have that app… Lol
And the fucking fake voices… Ugh… Such shit.
Like, usually I use my phone with the volume completely off and I don’t even want to turn it on for most of the videos I see on here or wherever but it seems like for all this tiktok garbage you need sound to even determine why the hell someone shared it with you.
PSA: If it’s links on Discord, you can prefix the link with
vxto make it natively embed so you don’t have to click through (e.g.vxtiktok.com). This also works with twitter links (vxtwitter.com). People out there hosting these domains doing the lord’s workPlot twist: the people hosting those are datamining the shit out of people
This but it’s instagram
It’s both. So annoying when the first bit is muted and you can’t replay.
My wife created an Instagram account in my phone so she can send me videos.
I just don’t respond but she’s not getting the hint.
Lol people don’t know their friends are platform snobs 😅
I fucking abhor TikTok. Anybody who installs that app is a danger to themselves and a traitor to mankind. Disgusting fucking thing, it pisses me off.
The thing about it that irks me the most is that it’s not even for any valuable means. It’s just a slightly different FaceBook or YouTube Shorts platform! You’re selling us all out for fucking video clips?!
My thoughts exactly.
I dunno man, my TikTok algorithm is about the wokest, most informative news feed amongst them all.
Sometimes they try something new, and I have to train the algorithm a little again, but nothing too annoying.The problem isn’t largely the manipulation of information you perceive through the app, although they do try their hardest.
The problem is the app. People are putting that shit on smartphones and walking around with it. It’s so bloated with spyware that the spyware outweighs the install data needed to run the app itself. I don’t care if they’ve got a headquarters in the USA or wherever else, at the end of the day I truly believe that the information being stolen is ending up in their Chinese HQ which is a fucking military operation of a hostile dictatorship.
It reads and transmits your message history, your GPS location, your photo library, depending on your model it’s probably recording sounds most of the time. They have your name, your address, the layout of your home, where you work, where you like to eat, which bank you use, every personal conversation you’ve had for months: you’re fucked if a global conflict ever starts. The other world powers will be completely crippled by a bunch of complacent fucking nitwits who chose Vines over their soul. Great job, assholes!
you’re angry
What is it about short vertical video that makes people froth insanely at the mouth? Don’t “china” me on it, people whine over youtube shorts, instagram reels, they poopoo on snapchat, loathed twitter stories, and thought vine was a stupid idea. It feels like an ancient redditor thing, but I was in the 11 year club too and it’s just a different type of format for media, media which can be used in many different ways, as always. Like how internet video generally is different to TV.
Just use YT Shorts if you love the videos format, don’t install an app from a military op in the world’s largest dictatorship.
You’re going to sit there and say “Don’t china me on it” when that’s literally the problem. You’re willfully ignorant of the actual problem with it. Fuck you!
Traitor to mankind? Don’t you think you’re being just a little bit dramatic?
I’m operating under the assumption that the Chinese Dictatorship by their very nature are acting against their own interests, that they could be happier in a functioning democracy with more equality.
Definitely a traitor to everyone else on earth, though. It would be akin to being a proponent of Stalin, Putin, Mao Zedong, the generals or the emperor of the Dai Nippon Empire, etc. History will be on my side with this one.
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As always I like promoting open source frontends for these pages. For tiktok I use proxytok. For changing any tiktok link to one of these instances use the libredirect extension for firefox, it also works in mobile
I just ignore them because the videos are a mess of graphics and popups outside the app. It has literally made some videos unwatchable for me as they kept getting interrupted and breaking.
It’s the worst mobile website I’ve ever seen, which is impressive considering Facebook and Reddit have been intentionally breaking their mobile websites for years now.
Suddenly glad all of my friends are old people like me.
Do memes stop being memes when they’re on tiktok?
Once they hit TikTok, they’re purely Chinese spyware.
Facebook is just American spyware. The Chinese gov can’t exactly send the feds to my house. You better bet the US gov can though!
And that’s different than American spyware in several important ways, such as…
Such as…
Well shit.
What sort of spyware do they employ?
The worst kind.
Any actual information on the spyware or nah?
Are you actually this ignorant? There have been exposés in multiple international newspapers on the source code after it leaked.
If you’re so stupid that you’ve entirely missed one of the largest spyware scandals in recent history, then I don’t think there’s a source I can give you that’s going to cure your other stupidity.
Trying to jaq off here like you are just makes you look like pathetic.
Could you link to any source that talks about this spyware or are you just going to insult me for not knowing about every single thing that is going on? Clearly this is an important issue for you, so I would love to gain some knowledge from you on this subject.
Ugh… I can feel this in my bones.
Why don’t they just actually send the video file?
Those apps purposely don’t make it trivial to download the files do they? You probably could but someone who swipes Tiktok all day can not.
Lots of tiktoks can be downloaded easily, but still, they can be large, why send those around when you can just send a link
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Facebook videos for me
