• Nurgle@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hate to break it to you my not-so-tech-savvy friend, but boomers on tiktok is not going to destroy tiktok like it did Facebook. The algo will basically only show their content to other boomers and young people will largely be unaware of it.

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      10 months ago

      The same was true of Facebook my not-so-socially-savvy friend. Kids will stop using it once they realise grandma is on there because it is no longer cool.

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        10 months ago

        Again, Facebook and TikTok operate differently. One is a social network, the other is a short form video platform. A social network is inherently dependent on its users. Did YouTube die when it became widely adopted??

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          10 months ago

          I don’t know if YouTube died per se, but it certainly became enshittified.

          Heaps of content creators sold out to advertising interests and degraded their own platform. Not that I blame them really, money always talks

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            10 months ago

            And new creators take their place, if you’re only seeing shit on YouTube it’s because you’re only subscribed to shit.

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              10 months ago

              Tell me you’re out of touch without telling me you’re out of touch. Most of the good creators only upload once in a blue moon nowadays. The search feature is completely useless. Dislikes have been removed, so you can’t easily filter garbage anymore. Shorts, a toxic form of content, is getting pushed down users’ throats. Their UI is getting worse all the time…

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                9 months ago

                I have no trouble finding good content and if you don’t use the official app or use it in your browser you can just disable shorts. It’s also not like dislikes ever actually filtered content lmao. You never saw videos with crazy dislike ratios back in the day? Engagement votes are engagement, whether they’re positive or negative.

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      10 months ago

      You do know kids can find out grandma is on tiktok other ways than just the site itself? Touch grass, remember there’s a world outside

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        10 months ago

        lol. I can’t tell if you just don’t know any young people or if it’s that you don’t know the difference between a social network and a short term video app. (Or you’re just mad cause tiktok = bad.)