Why do so many people hold TikTok with such contempt when there is so much good content from comrades that would otherwise be deleted on YouTube?

because there's no client on fdroid :)

TikTok's algorithm gives different people wildly different results. I watch and like about 80% videos of animals and 20% absurd comedy sketches, and that's what TikTok continues to recommend to me. If you're watching and engaging with stupid liberal bullshit, it's probably going to show you more of that.

I don't like tiktok because of the bite-sized content. It fucks with my attention span. I am already super dependent on highly dopaminergic activities and substances, i don't need to fuck my dopaminergic system further into the ground. Currently i'm too bored to fall asleep. That's how bad it is. Tiktok would only make it worse

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I’m too old and angry to get into new types of social media this is why I’m on a text/markup based web forum.

Also I don’t care much to consume video content, never even got into youtube. Also I try to avoid platforms with algorithms/endless scrolling, just cant be good for me

I’ve got enough content to waste my time on, I don’t want to seek more, especially on an app that will further fuck with my ability to focus.

Because tiktok is spyware

I personally love tiktok, it's great on a my morning train commute where I have to switch trains, it's fun, I get a mix of shitposting, leftist politics and cute animals, it hasn't ruined my attention span or anything like. I still prefer long form entertainment like video essays and documentaries, but I tend to enjoy a wide variety of content styles and mediums so maybe I'm just a weird person 😅 I think it's amusing how many people shit on it, mostly I think because it's cool to shit on the popular thing, I understand that a lot of popularity is astroturfed, but I tend to have a an odd appreciation for popular culture, so again I think I'm might be weird, especially in a counterculture oriented community like this, but maybe I'm wrong? Also I sound like an anti-hipster and I promise I'm not just trying to be unique lol.

Because it kept popping up notifications after I'd turned them off. Insta-uninstall.

Because the country that hosts it is an economic and potential military rival of the US. If they wanted, they could command TikTok to surrender things like tracking data to them. We are concerned this might negatively impact our ability to defend ourselves sometime in the future.