The way social media companies just chase each others features is ridiculous. They can't be content with being unique or offering a specialized feature set. No, they all have to do image posts, then stores, then video, then short videos.
However, anything that helps kill the trend of every goddamned thing being a video even when it doesn't need to be is a very welcome change
If TikTok starts allowing standard hyperlinks it would dramatically reduce the platform's peak harm potential. Tiktok's single biggest problem rn is that it is literally impossible to cite your sources - that's why it's the runaway global leader for misinformation. Adding text would help, bringing it back down to regular Facebook levels of social erosion and election distortion.
runaway global leader for misinformation
I'd really like to see that study if you've got it handy
Fair enough - I don't have one. At least not to hand. There has been a LOT of reporting about misinformation, disinformation, and fucked up cultural trends unique to TikTok, but I used that phrase hyperbolically to reinforce my actual point: that it is literally impossible to cite sources on TikTok, making it the only social network where credible, knowledgeable, expert, and authoritative creators cannot in principle be distinguished from hoeseshit.
My instagram usage nowdays consists of me scrolling past 20 videos untill I reach the end of my feed and then close the site and realize it gave me zero content. For some reason I still go there once a day.
"These cigarettes used to make me happy," he opined as he took another drag.
The moment I realised that is the moment I quit both cigarettes and Meta products...
The way social media companies just chase each others features is ridiculous. They can't be content with being unique or offering a specialized feature set. No, they all have to do image posts, then stores, then video, then short videos.
However, anything that helps kill the trend of every goddamned thing being a video even when it doesn't need to be is a very welcome change
If TikTok starts allowing standard hyperlinks it would dramatically reduce the platform's peak harm potential. Tiktok's single biggest problem rn is that it is literally impossible to cite your sources - that's why it's the runaway global leader for misinformation. Adding text would help, bringing it back down to regular Facebook levels of social erosion and election distortion.
I'd really like to see that study if you've got it handy
Fair enough - I don't have one. At least not to hand. There has been a LOT of reporting about misinformation, disinformation, and fucked up cultural trends unique to TikTok, but I used that phrase hyperbolically to reinforce my actual point: that it is literally impossible to cite sources on TikTok, making it the only social network where credible, knowledgeable, expert, and authoritative creators cannot in principle be distinguished from hoeseshit.
My instagram usage nowdays consists of me scrolling past 20 videos untill I reach the end of my feed and then close the site and realize it gave me zero content. For some reason I still go there once a day.
"These cigarettes used to make me happy," he opined as he took another drag.
The moment I realised that is the moment I quit both cigarettes and Meta products...