• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You either never used Tiktok, or you spent too much time staring at the shit videos and that ended up as your feed.

    Personally, I get gardening tips, legal analysis of the trump trials, and stand up comedy. It’s great.

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      8 months ago

      I get that on YouTube. (Legal Eagle, Leja etc) Just a bit less CCP manipulation. Not that there aren’t issues with YouTube. Just less than TicTok.

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        8 months ago

        I have trouble with YouTube. It never recommends good short form content. If I could crack that, I probably wouldn’t Tiktok.

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          8 months ago

          That’s probably fair enough. I don’t watch shorts on any site anywhere. I tend to opt for the 20 minute 30 minute or longer videos. Sitting and working on things when I get home.

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          8 months ago

          This, basically. Google took YouTube and made its algorithm push more long form content for the purpose of generating revenue from ads. Not saying TikTok doesn’t have ads in my feed but at least I can skip literally all of them.

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      8 months ago

      I only saw some videos on other’s phones.

      Also I started using newpipe for youtube exactly because I don’t want an algorithm learning what I’m interested in. No way in hell I do it for tiktok.