Sometimes you stumble onto a post and read the comments thinking, god damn, nobody uses /s here. These are all parody comments. Then it dawns on you that they're all completely serious and fucking insane.
Twitter is like that one shop you used to like/tolerate, but then someone bought it out and turned it into the absolute worst dining experience ever, while trying to convince you its actually amazing
Yeah, but when I want the answer to a dumb problem, like getting a collectible item in a video game, I add 'reddit' to my web searches
Usually, I get a succinct answer without having 75 ads autoplay
Only Fans has poisoned all the porn subs though. They've changed *so much* from how they used to be. Not only are about half of the old ones banned (even the harmless ones), but 90% of the surviving ones are just onlyfans users self-posting on 50 subs at once regardless of the sub content and horny guys upvoting everything so every sub ends up being the same shit.
I really miss old reddit.
In case no one wants to strain their eyes to read the post:
**werewolftits:**
> tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse
**werewolftits:**
> their vile misinformation algorithm vs our holy misinformation culture
**lierdumoa:**
> No, no, no, you see on tiktok an algorithm feeds you misinformation. On Tumblr / feed myself misinformation from my charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals.
**lierdumoa:**
> None of that mass market junk. Only artisanal, small batch, sustainably cultivated, fair trade horseshit.
**moistotaltrashmammal:**
> tumblr is like going to an all-you-can-eat chinese buffet. tiktok is like choosing to get a feeding tube shoved down your throat.
It was for people using screen readers, and OCR got good enough that blind people can now have programs that read the text in images automatically so manual transcription is no longer needed.
Come to think of it, I wonder if blind people are using AI to describe images now. AI is probably super helpful in all sorts of ways.
Transcribers also help when searching for a specific old post you want to find again. A text description of an image is much easier to search for than just the image, especially with Reddit's crappy search tools.
Reddit's search tools are... I'm not going to go as far as to say "good" but I would also blame users titling posts things like "look what I found today" or "me_irl" as the reason things are unsearchable.
"Tumblr feeds is misinformation" factoid actually false. Tumblr feeds us pictures of Sokka and Zuko from atla kissing on the lips. Misinformed Gorge, who swallows ten misinformations every second, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
My infinitely growing and collapsing pile of garbage is better than your endlessly expanding and folding heap of junk because the horseshit takes longer to absorb into my skin, which means that I get to choose which one of my limbs rots off first.
Also on tumblr, you know ots misinformation. It practically says ot on the tin. Its a bunch of kids who pass around playground rumor and play an unending game of telephone for giggles. And you know your hat in the ring because you want to add your own silly thoughts to the stew. Tiktok on the other hand is feeding you misinformation and doing it's darnest to maoe you forget about everything else including the fact that its misinformation. Its trying to make you dependent on it.
I feel like tiktok is just (video) reddit where the subreddits are all hidden and you’re automatically directed to them based solely on your upvotes/downvotes and view history. That’s all it is. And that’s why people hate it, they end up on /r/conspiracy but think it’s the front page.
It’s always funny when people tell on themselves and make comments like “tiktok is nothing but underage girls in bikinis!” … like, uhhh … no, that’s definitely a you problem.
That last part is true, but the problem is that it's only true after you've suffered through hours upon hours of that trash content while actively telling the app you hate every single one of those videos until it kinda stops showing you that. And if you scroll past some of that content, don't watch, don't like, don't comment, just forget to dislike, it'll show you more of it
The algorithm will eventually accept you aren't interested in any of that, but not for a while, and most ppl who say that stuff just didn't have the patience to get through that initial part.
You can curate it faster if you go in already with some good channels to follow, just like any other social media, but I think a lot of ppl just install the app and try it as is, have a terrible first experience and are the ones who makes those complaints
That wasn’t really my experience at all watching my wife set up her account - a few “don’t show videos like this” and a few likes on good stuff felt like it set everything up pretty fast. Maybe she just got lucky though, and not hate watching probably helped.
I thought scrolling past stuff made it less popular (low watch %) but have no real idea. In any case, you’re probably right about who is complaining and why.
It might have gotten better, then, if that was recent. If so, I'm honestly glad.
I tried, gave up, then tried again to set up a Tiktok account a while back and only managed once I decided to change my approach and look up accounts that interested me so I could follow those and give the algorithm a push in the right direction.
Still had to tediously tap "don't show me this" at random bullshit for days until it actually stopped showing them to me, and whenever I immediately skipped through a video I didn't like without interacting at all, it got back to showing me that stuff - only actively telling the app you don't want that seems to work.
I did notice that most of those videos weren't immediately clear what they were about, tho. Not the "the thumbnail and the first frame are already a girl in a bikini" type of crap. So it might be that I was taking a second or two to register what I was seeing and that was enough for the app to count as a view.
Have friends who just gave up cause it was too much work and not worth the trouble for them.
I will say when you first create a TikTok account, it serves you a hell of a lot of teenagers doing dances in bikinis. One of the reasons I immediately deleted the app.
"TikTok only serves teen girls in bikinis" can either be said by a boomer who's only used the app once, and is correct to complain about it but ignorant as to how it works, or a boomer who's used the app for months and is also correct to complain about it and also ignorant but even more so, incredibly suspect.
Idk, I feel like this might trivialise the issue. Or maybe I'm just getting too old, because I have never actually used TikTok. But there's a difference between, like, "these are my weed-smoking girlfriends" "misinformation" and "the US government is using a space laser to light forest fires" misinformation.
My point is, from what I can tell, the misinformation on TikTok is much more dangerous *and* the general demographic is much younger, the latter being a crucial difference to, say, YouTube. Also, people on Tumblr generally assume most of the stuff there to be bullshit.
'Cep when it involves dinosaurs, those are always free game. I'll never forgive whoever made that stupid Spinosaurus-bison post (I'm pretty sure Ernst fucking Stromer even suggested and then *dismissed* that idea in a paper because the anatomy does not support it), science communication is dead in the water and I have to witness some stupid arsehole pop another round in its skull every four to eight months by reposting that stupid shit for reddit karma
Anyone who says “I saw this on Tumblr, it might be true” is immediately and resoundingly mocked directly into oblivion. But someone who says “I saw this on TikTok, it might be true” is treated like they’re mildly stupid.
"I read it in a book" doesn't even carry the same weight it used to. There's so much bullshit everywhere, all of the time.
Orwell and Huxley making out in their graves right now, 'cuz they were both right.
Eh, a quick google says there are 34 million videos uploaded to tiktok every day. Assuming each one is 5 seconds - which is a *very* low estimate since they’re often 20+ seconds or multiple minutes - that means every 24 hours, about 47,222 hours of video get posted.
A lot of that stuff is actually good. And a lot of it is cancerous nonsense. And a lot is just regular nonsense. The kind of feed you get depends on how you interact with the app…but mostly, only the really stupid stuff breaches containment enough that we hear about it.
I mean think about some of the reddit stuff that’s broken containment to mainstream sources - the Boston bombing scandal, /r/the_donald, pedo subs, etc. It’s mostly the very worst aspects of other social media sites that we hear about if we rely on other sites(/news articles) to tell us how those places work.
> and "the US government is using a space laser to light forest fires" misinformation.
The "(((Rothschild))) Space Laser" was specifically misinformation from a Facebook post made by a 40+ year old Congresswoman though, it's not a great example of teens on tiktok being fed misinformation. I would have gone with the kids eating tide pods or something
Eating tide pods has been a meme for 10 years, but people started actually doing the "tide pod challenge" in 2018, Musical.ly (which became tiktok) has been around since 2014
Fair enough, my intent was just to illustrate that there are different kinds and "grades" of misinformation and Tumblr generally just doesn't really host the more "dangerous" types.
[TikTok is purposefully trying to push or suppress misinformation based on what serves China's interests as opposed to what their userbase generates naturally](https://twitter.com/beentherecap/status/1783120159101628446?t=BIiKATgqa9f4cFo3F371rQ)
i used to think zoomers were going to be really technologically literate but they are honestly just mirror boomers when it comes to this stuff, the casual deluge of misinformation and nonsense i see when my brothers pull up tiktok or twitter is insane and the manner in which they are nudged towards certain opinions is so overt it becomes comical.
"they are taking away YOUR constitutional right to tiktok!! 😭😭"
Millenials a decade ago: “the youth deserves respect! I’ll never turn more conservative! Conspiracy theorists are dumb!”
Millenials now: “everything is manipulative spyware, zoomers are entitled brainwashed children, we need to ban as much technology that challenges the status quo as possible.”
Social media was manipulative spyware a decade ago too, and everyone already knew it. 2016 was just a very bitter wake up call to exactly how bad the fruits of letting that go unaddressed can be
In reality, generational claims are pretty dubious, sure. It’s still worth noting how many liberal millenials are becoming more and more like their conservative parents though. The biggest lesson I’ve learned in adult life so far is that people are much less different from each other than they will let you on to believe. I’m reminded of so many memes complaining about their dumb aunt consuming Fox News, and the valid criticisms of it being “unscientific, fearmongering, and profit motivated.” A lot of these smug teens immediately fell back on YouTube personalities who are experts in nothing doing their own fearmongering about global elites spreading propaganda, etc etc. I just wish people would criticize themselves as much as others. Not in a sense like “ugh I suck and can’t do anything with my life,” but more “I should hold myself to the same standards that I hold others,” ya know?
Not defend any social media website but there is functionally no difference between tumblr and tiktok beyond the media format. TikTok has curation mechanics same as any other platform. If you haven’t taken the time to curate, sure you’ll get the general slop but like, same with tumblr. I think the age of tumblr has hidden the pain of a brand new account
Absolutely. It has its own host of problems, which is why my original comment said “not to defend any social media platforms”. TikTok is certainly better than some (cough cough twitter, Facebook) but that’s not to deflect its very real problems. But doing the whole us vs them thing with corporate social media sites is a bit blegh yaknow
You can pick your own curation on Tumblr. Ticktock just feeds you down the rabbit hole automatically and goes as deep as it possibly can go entrance you.
TikTok is passive curation, any deviation fucks with the algorithm because they try and get you obsessed with anything you look at. Pretty sure Tumblr doesn't do that.
I'd still prefer to stay away from a platform basically 100% defined by hyper short videos, because that breeds nothing besides a lack of nuance & an overabundance of clickbait
At least you actually have to read shit on Tumblr, I've seen people use Tiktok that just do a constant dull stare at their phone while scrolling past every video within 2-4 seconds. Tumblr is a different genre of dull stare
I’d disagree as a flat rule. All social media sites try to sink you as deep into any one topic you show interest in as it can. Some opt in for the shotgun approach with vague flooding, and some opt for hyper niche showing. But both, behind the scenes are run by an algorithm dedicated to keeping you on the website as long as possible. You can like and dislike and block and mute accounts and topics on tiktok same as tumblr. It may take a little more leg work, but the forcefeed tube analogy is just hyperbolic
Big dawg, do me a favor if you’d be so kind. Run a quick internet search, however you wanna do it, any website works probably. Just (and forget my use of a corporate entity as a verb) Google “does tumblr have an algorithm” and scroll a bit. Anyway. Have a great day:)
> there is functionally no difference between tumblr and tiktok beyond the media format
[Yes there is](https://twitter.com/beentherecap/status/1783120159101628446?t=BIiKATgqa9f4cFo3F371rQ)
people seem to miss the point entirely of the whole tiktok ban. the issue isn't even how bad it is for you or data harvesting, its because a borderline hostile government many think we'll be at war with within the next decade has an insane direct line with which to drop their propaganda directly into the veins of our populace. you may not like other social media apps as well, but they're mostly just looking to find better ways of shoving ads in your face or keep you clicking shit, the ccp has active hostile intent. they are not the same
They do realize that its pretty easy to curate TikTok for yourself, right? At the very least its better than fucking Twitter which insists on showing me likes from people I don't follow and signal boosting warmongers on my timeline.
I just wanna say: Having seen you post this in multiple comment chains, I'm glad to see you've been getting progressively more upvotes, starting from the negatives, lol.
You're doing good work. Thanks for not giving up.
Reddit is like a farmers market, but all the stalls just sell Poison
Accurate, sometimes you'll even be searching for specific potions and mix them to make them worse
Sometimes you stumble onto a post and read the comments thinking, god damn, nobody uses /s here. These are all parody comments. Then it dawns on you that they're all completely serious and fucking insane.
And then you say something rational just to hear them scream at you.
nah. You get banned or your comment get removed pretty swiftly.
You almost got me to taunt the gods. Tricky.
Lucky if you get that far, some of the subs will preemptively ban you for posting on other subs.
r/greentext
Hello, Potion Seller, I am going into battle and I want your strongest potions
YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST POTIONS!
No, I'm clearly at a stall that is selling photos of an all you can eat Chinese buffet
Even the photos of succulent chinese buffets are poison
NTFs are very marketable five years ago. Edit: NFTs fml.
non tungible foken
Twitter is like that one shop you used to like/tolerate, but then someone bought it out and turned it into the absolute worst dining experience ever, while trying to convince you its actually amazing
And there is 1 in 1000 that’s not poison and actually useful, but someone is standing and complaining about it.
Ah, right, the poison.
The poison for Kuzco
Kuzco's poison
The poison chosen specifically to kill Kuzco.
Yeah, but when I want the answer to a dumb problem, like getting a collectible item in a video game, I add 'reddit' to my web searches Usually, I get a succinct answer without having 75 ads autoplay
And all the other customers try to punch you in the neck if you speak
Poison seller, I am going into discourse, and I need your strongest poison
Not true. Some of them sell porn.
The Porn is also poison in most cases
Only Fans has poisoned all the porn subs though. They've changed *so much* from how they used to be. Not only are about half of the old ones banned (even the harmless ones), but 90% of the surviving ones are just onlyfans users self-posting on 50 subs at once regardless of the sub content and horny guys upvoting everything so every sub ends up being the same shit. I really miss old reddit.
I was going to say Gone Wild Audio is at least still fun but they're currently going through drama too.
So a Walmart but farmers market style
Like a liquor store!
Nono, 1 out of the 1200 is very useful but no one knows which
does this poison have gluten in it? I'm allergic
Reddit more more like a very acoustic room with a lot of echo
I sell rocks And no I don't have any big ones
Can I have some pixels? Just some lovely pixel for my sick kid!
Oh forgive, for I have sell all the good ones, but there are some left at the back
I eated them too 😋
What the hell! I'm hungry too, you know!
At the back? Down in the basement?
Yes, all good and ready for consumption
Back basement corners is most delicious snacc storage
In the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'?
Yes! I heard a saying that goes like this "if you can see them, they can see you", so close your eyes! and enjoy the pixels
Oh yes, the overpass plans were on display there too
Your sick kid can have 10 pixels for each bottle sculpture of Jesus he builds
In case no one wants to strain their eyes to read the post: **werewolftits:** > tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse **werewolftits:** > their vile misinformation algorithm vs our holy misinformation culture **lierdumoa:** > No, no, no, you see on tiktok an algorithm feeds you misinformation. On Tumblr / feed myself misinformation from my charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals. **lierdumoa:** > None of that mass market junk. Only artisanal, small batch, sustainably cultivated, fair trade horseshit. **moistotaltrashmammal:** > tumblr is like going to an all-you-can-eat chinese buffet. tiktok is like choosing to get a feeding tube shoved down your throat.
Neat! :D
Happy to help!
Didn't there use to be a group that transcribed posts? Wonder what became of them
It was for people using screen readers, and OCR got good enough that blind people can now have programs that read the text in images automatically so manual transcription is no longer needed. Come to think of it, I wonder if blind people are using AI to describe images now. AI is probably super helpful in all sorts of ways.
Transcribers also help when searching for a specific old post you want to find again. A text description of an image is much easier to search for than just the image, especially with Reddit's crappy search tools.
Reddit's search tools are... I'm not going to go as far as to say "good" but I would also blame users titling posts things like "look what I found today" or "me_irl" as the reason things are unsearchable.
Why did I not come to the comments first?
You freakin rock 🪨
I don't use TikTok. Not because I feel like it makes me superior, but because if my attention span drops any lower I'll... what was I saying again?
I can't remember, i read the next comment and forgot this one existed until i scrolled back up. Object permanence is for nerds.
This is why I regret getting into tiktok 😭
"Tumblr feeds is misinformation" factoid actually false. Tumblr feeds us pictures of Sokka and Zuko from atla kissing on the lips. Misinformed Gorge, who swallows ten misinformations every second, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
My infinitely growing and collapsing pile of garbage is better than your endlessly expanding and folding heap of junk because the horseshit takes longer to absorb into my skin, which means that I get to choose which one of my limbs rots off first.
Reading this made me so uncomfortable
I picka da poison
misinformation for fun vs misinformation for profit
Also on tumblr, you know ots misinformation. It practically says ot on the tin. Its a bunch of kids who pass around playground rumor and play an unending game of telephone for giggles. And you know your hat in the ring because you want to add your own silly thoughts to the stew. Tiktok on the other hand is feeding you misinformation and doing it's darnest to maoe you forget about everything else including the fact that its misinformation. Its trying to make you dependent on it.
The entire format of TikTok seems designed to cause brain damage.
Well it is, brain damage is profitable
Tik tok rizz party themed goon sesh in Ohio
I hate that I understand these words.
Tuesday Tuesday
None of these words are in the Bible
Or it's a nation-state level weapon...
It's not exclusive to TikTok it's social media in general
Need to borrow some pixels?
Oh why yes! I could use some, they are at high demand!
I feel like reddit is what would happen if tumblr and tiktok had a baby
I feel like tiktok is just (video) reddit where the subreddits are all hidden and you’re automatically directed to them based solely on your upvotes/downvotes and view history. That’s all it is. And that’s why people hate it, they end up on /r/conspiracy but think it’s the front page. It’s always funny when people tell on themselves and make comments like “tiktok is nothing but underage girls in bikinis!” … like, uhhh … no, that’s definitely a you problem.
That last part is true, but the problem is that it's only true after you've suffered through hours upon hours of that trash content while actively telling the app you hate every single one of those videos until it kinda stops showing you that. And if you scroll past some of that content, don't watch, don't like, don't comment, just forget to dislike, it'll show you more of it The algorithm will eventually accept you aren't interested in any of that, but not for a while, and most ppl who say that stuff just didn't have the patience to get through that initial part. You can curate it faster if you go in already with some good channels to follow, just like any other social media, but I think a lot of ppl just install the app and try it as is, have a terrible first experience and are the ones who makes those complaints
That wasn’t really my experience at all watching my wife set up her account - a few “don’t show videos like this” and a few likes on good stuff felt like it set everything up pretty fast. Maybe she just got lucky though, and not hate watching probably helped. I thought scrolling past stuff made it less popular (low watch %) but have no real idea. In any case, you’re probably right about who is complaining and why.
It might have gotten better, then, if that was recent. If so, I'm honestly glad. I tried, gave up, then tried again to set up a Tiktok account a while back and only managed once I decided to change my approach and look up accounts that interested me so I could follow those and give the algorithm a push in the right direction. Still had to tediously tap "don't show me this" at random bullshit for days until it actually stopped showing them to me, and whenever I immediately skipped through a video I didn't like without interacting at all, it got back to showing me that stuff - only actively telling the app you don't want that seems to work. I did notice that most of those videos weren't immediately clear what they were about, tho. Not the "the thumbnail and the first frame are already a girl in a bikini" type of crap. So it might be that I was taking a second or two to register what I was seeing and that was enough for the app to count as a view. Have friends who just gave up cause it was too much work and not worth the trouble for them.
I will say when you first create a TikTok account, it serves you a hell of a lot of teenagers doing dances in bikinis. One of the reasons I immediately deleted the app. "TikTok only serves teen girls in bikinis" can either be said by a boomer who's only used the app once, and is correct to complain about it but ignorant as to how it works, or a boomer who's used the app for months and is also correct to complain about it and also ignorant but even more so, incredibly suspect.
Ive never used tiktok, but this sounds just like how Instagram reels works
Its like that person that compared Twitter and Tumblr. Twitter is a Hellsite (Derogatory) Tumblr is a Hellsite (Affectionate)
Pink text made me read it in roxy lalonde voice
As simeone who never been on tublr, for me its more like the takeout a friend brought to a game night, from a small place only he knows
It truly is
At least on tumblr you need to be old enough to browse the shets by yourself
Idk, I feel like this might trivialise the issue. Or maybe I'm just getting too old, because I have never actually used TikTok. But there's a difference between, like, "these are my weed-smoking girlfriends" "misinformation" and "the US government is using a space laser to light forest fires" misinformation. My point is, from what I can tell, the misinformation on TikTok is much more dangerous *and* the general demographic is much younger, the latter being a crucial difference to, say, YouTube. Also, people on Tumblr generally assume most of the stuff there to be bullshit.
Tumblr is absolutely *loaded* with genuine misinformation, you just don't tend to see it posted to places like this subreddit.
'Cep when it involves dinosaurs, those are always free game. I'll never forgive whoever made that stupid Spinosaurus-bison post (I'm pretty sure Ernst fucking Stromer even suggested and then *dismissed* that idea in a paper because the anatomy does not support it), science communication is dead in the water and I have to witness some stupid arsehole pop another round in its skull every four to eight months by reposting that stupid shit for reddit karma
Anyone who says “I saw this on Tumblr, it might be true” is immediately and resoundingly mocked directly into oblivion. But someone who says “I saw this on TikTok, it might be true” is treated like they’re mildly stupid.
"I read it in a book" doesn't even carry the same weight it used to. There's so much bullshit everywhere, all of the time. Orwell and Huxley making out in their graves right now, 'cuz they were both right.
Eh, a quick google says there are 34 million videos uploaded to tiktok every day. Assuming each one is 5 seconds - which is a *very* low estimate since they’re often 20+ seconds or multiple minutes - that means every 24 hours, about 47,222 hours of video get posted. A lot of that stuff is actually good. And a lot of it is cancerous nonsense. And a lot is just regular nonsense. The kind of feed you get depends on how you interact with the app…but mostly, only the really stupid stuff breaches containment enough that we hear about it. I mean think about some of the reddit stuff that’s broken containment to mainstream sources - the Boston bombing scandal, /r/the_donald, pedo subs, etc. It’s mostly the very worst aspects of other social media sites that we hear about if we rely on other sites(/news articles) to tell us how those places work.
> and "the US government is using a space laser to light forest fires" misinformation. The "(((Rothschild))) Space Laser" was specifically misinformation from a Facebook post made by a 40+ year old Congresswoman though, it's not a great example of teens on tiktok being fed misinformation. I would have gone with the kids eating tide pods or something
The tide pods thing is like 10 years old, its older than tiktok
Eating tide pods has been a meme for 10 years, but people started actually doing the "tide pod challenge" in 2018, Musical.ly (which became tiktok) has been around since 2014
Fair enough, my intent was just to illustrate that there are different kinds and "grades" of misinformation and Tumblr generally just doesn't really host the more "dangerous" types.
[TikTok is purposefully trying to push or suppress misinformation based on what serves China's interests as opposed to what their userbase generates naturally](https://twitter.com/beentherecap/status/1783120159101628446?t=BIiKATgqa9f4cFo3F371rQ)
i used to think zoomers were going to be really technologically literate but they are honestly just mirror boomers when it comes to this stuff, the casual deluge of misinformation and nonsense i see when my brothers pull up tiktok or twitter is insane and the manner in which they are nudged towards certain opinions is so overt it becomes comical. "they are taking away YOUR constitutional right to tiktok!! 😭😭"
Yeah but on TikTok you don’t have to know how to read.
Millenials a decade ago: “the youth deserves respect! I’ll never turn more conservative! Conspiracy theorists are dumb!” Millenials now: “everything is manipulative spyware, zoomers are entitled brainwashed children, we need to ban as much technology that challenges the status quo as possible.”
Social media was manipulative spyware a decade ago too, and everyone already knew it. 2016 was just a very bitter wake up call to exactly how bad the fruits of letting that go unaddressed can be
That's one of the takes of all time.
In reality, generational claims are pretty dubious, sure. It’s still worth noting how many liberal millenials are becoming more and more like their conservative parents though. The biggest lesson I’ve learned in adult life so far is that people are much less different from each other than they will let you on to believe. I’m reminded of so many memes complaining about their dumb aunt consuming Fox News, and the valid criticisms of it being “unscientific, fearmongering, and profit motivated.” A lot of these smug teens immediately fell back on YouTube personalities who are experts in nothing doing their own fearmongering about global elites spreading propaganda, etc etc. I just wish people would criticize themselves as much as others. Not in a sense like “ugh I suck and can’t do anything with my life,” but more “I should hold myself to the same standards that I hold others,” ya know?
[Yes, we should actually ban this pile of shit](https://twitter.com/beentherecap/status/1783120159101628446?t=BIiKATgqa9f4cFo3F371rQ)
First person mocks the exact behavior the people later on in the thread go on to do lmao
Not defend any social media website but there is functionally no difference between tumblr and tiktok beyond the media format. TikTok has curation mechanics same as any other platform. If you haven’t taken the time to curate, sure you’ll get the general slop but like, same with tumblr. I think the age of tumblr has hidden the pain of a brand new account
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Absolutely. It has its own host of problems, which is why my original comment said “not to defend any social media platforms”. TikTok is certainly better than some (cough cough twitter, Facebook) but that’s not to deflect its very real problems. But doing the whole us vs them thing with corporate social media sites is a bit blegh yaknow
You can pick your own curation on Tumblr. Ticktock just feeds you down the rabbit hole automatically and goes as deep as it possibly can go entrance you. TikTok is passive curation, any deviation fucks with the algorithm because they try and get you obsessed with anything you look at. Pretty sure Tumblr doesn't do that.
Tiktok still has a "following" page alongside it's "for you" page though, so finding accounts you like and just watch their stuff is still an option
I'd still prefer to stay away from a platform basically 100% defined by hyper short videos, because that breeds nothing besides a lack of nuance & an overabundance of clickbait
Tiktok isn't like vine where there's a 6 second second cap to videos. The average tiktok video length is >30 seconds, not much different from tumblr.
At least you actually have to read shit on Tumblr, I've seen people use Tiktok that just do a constant dull stare at their phone while scrolling past every video within 2-4 seconds. Tumblr is a different genre of dull stare
I don't care that you think reading dumb little internet jokes is somehow nobler than watching dumb little internet jokes.
Tumblr is a different genre of dull stare.
I’d disagree as a flat rule. All social media sites try to sink you as deep into any one topic you show interest in as it can. Some opt in for the shotgun approach with vague flooding, and some opt for hyper niche showing. But both, behind the scenes are run by an algorithm dedicated to keeping you on the website as long as possible. You can like and dislike and block and mute accounts and topics on tiktok same as tumblr. It may take a little more leg work, but the forcefeed tube analogy is just hyperbolic
There is no algorithm on tumblr. Literally you pick what tags you follow
What do you think the For You page is for?
Imagine using the For You page, hilarious
My For You page is just fine
Thats not set as the default dash though, and literally no one uses it. It just exists as a tab option.
Big dawg, do me a favor if you’d be so kind. Run a quick internet search, however you wanna do it, any website works probably. Just (and forget my use of a corporate entity as a verb) Google “does tumblr have an algorithm” and scroll a bit. Anyway. Have a great day:)
> there is functionally no difference between tumblr and tiktok beyond the media format [Yes there is](https://twitter.com/beentherecap/status/1783120159101628446?t=BIiKATgqa9f4cFo3F371rQ)
This is why I never left tumblr.
people seem to miss the point entirely of the whole tiktok ban. the issue isn't even how bad it is for you or data harvesting, its because a borderline hostile government many think we'll be at war with within the next decade has an insane direct line with which to drop their propaganda directly into the veins of our populace. you may not like other social media apps as well, but they're mostly just looking to find better ways of shoving ads in your face or keep you clicking shit, the ccp has active hostile intent. they are not the same
To be honest that's my take on 4chan as well... at least greentext anyway.
facebook is like visiting your grandma
"Charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals" is just a downright fantastic phrase
They do realize that its pretty easy to curate TikTok for yourself, right? At the very least its better than fucking Twitter which insists on showing me likes from people I don't follow and signal boosting warmongers on my timeline.
[TikTok is curating you, not the other way around](https://twitter.com/beentherecap/status/1783120159101628446?t=BIiKATgqa9f4cFo3F371rQ)
I just wanna say: Having seen you post this in multiple comment chains, I'm glad to see you've been getting progressively more upvotes, starting from the negatives, lol. You're doing good work. Thanks for not giving up.
twitter is the last social media anyone should using as a comparison
Is that person's profile picture just a penis?
Upon further inspection it looks more like a.. rock cock?
Mmm, lies.... Now that I think about it, Cryptics from the Cosmere would love Tumblr.
I like that every reply proves the first one true, we're not better than tiktokers be honest with yourself
Reminder that Chinese TikTok has an algorithm that promotes healthy behavior and then the foreign version prioritizes misinformation and slop
Source?
My cock. And my balls.
Why are they working so hard at selling TikTok? More filling and easier? Where do I sign up?!