The Enshittification of Tik Tok
A nice break down of how social media and the internet generally has turned into a giant fucking turd.
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I've noticed a huge change on Instagram over the last couple of years. More, and more, and more irrelevant video adverts, it's become almost impossible to see posts from friends and those I'm following.
Also, my own pictures don't show up on hashtag searches any more. Go back a while and I would receive a lot of likes from non-followers. Now it all gets suppressed to make way for posts from those who already have a massive fanbase. Coming up with new things feels futile when it's all just getting thrown straight into a black hole.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 18:14,
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Instagram started pre-shittified too.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 19:11,
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The thing that finally made me delete the Facebook app
Was the realisation that my feed had only one post from either a friend or a group I was in in the first seventeen items. The rest were adverts or “suggested posts”.
I now check the website about once a week as opposed to checking the app once an hour.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 19:10,
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I can't get the FB site to work properly on mobile any more, everything I click on from the main feed gives "link broken or expired".
It's almost like they're trying to force everyone to use the app instead.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 19:16,
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What do you need facebook for?
I didn't see the point in it 18 years ago, since I already had an email address and wasn't a blogger. Nothing that has happened since then has led me to desire a facebook account.
IDGI.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 19:32,
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I eventually joined because it became the only way to be invited to anything
People kept complaining that I hadn't turned up to parties they had only advertised on Facebook.
Then there was a plague, my feed filled up with anti vaxer conspiraloons and I concluded that the internet thing was a mistake.
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Special interest groups aside, it notifies me of important events in the lives of people I'll never meet up with again.
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 19:44,
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No one ever “needed” Facebook.
In the beginning though it was a compelling offer to users as stated in the article. I found both the site and Messenger particularly useful as a way to keep in contact with both friends and my wider social circle back when I was travelling a lot for work. Sure I could have used a phone, but this was before Europe-wide roaming was a thing.
Groups also offered a really convenient way to connect with people with similar interests and hobbies. This is still useful to me today, and the only part that prevents me from deleting my account entirely.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 20:37,
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I can't disagree with any of that
except that Tik Tok started pre-shitified.
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brb homonecrobatrachophile, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 18:47,
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If you're over 30 and browsing TikTok, you need to take a look at yourself.
All social media is fucking shit, though. All of it.
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I’m reluctant to defend TikTok for multiple reasons, but…
initially the enforced brevity it imposed on content creators taught people that brevity is the soul of wit and less is more. This meant you didn’t get all these tedious and vacuous intros so ubiquitous on YouTube that invariably last a least a couple of minutes and say absolutely nothing. They almost always end with "so let’s get straight into it" but then very often don’t. People learnt to be funny or interesting from the get go, rather than starting with an ego trip. It also taught people how to edit different shots together in a way other platforms never did. Sadly the increasingly popular live streaming has undone much of this good.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 21:17,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ieq99w-VQ40
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Fri 27 Jan 2023, 23:08,
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I believe the YouTube length thing is optimising for
more payment, rather than anything else. I think time is a factor in what you get paid there.
If people optimised for a returning audience, they'd be shorter.
Probably not a good long-term plan. You can only not deliver so many times before people don't bother clicking.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 28 Jan 2023, 11:42,
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That’s interesting and makes a lot of sense.
But there is a general trend. BBC docs very obviously follow strict guidelines. Introductions must be at least two minutes long. Most are three. Presenter must talk about going on a journey where WE will discover amazing things hitherto completely unknown to mankind. This must be stated and restated at least three times. Presenter must emote and personalise the experience. This is how we get Sue Perkins on a boat in the Mekong delta seemingly visibly shocked as she reveals that communism wasn’t always a bed of roses and how this makes her feel, as she always thought they were the good guys. Don’t worry though, she concludes that the politics was well intentioned and moral, but the application of the principles was wrong.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sat 28 Jan 2023, 16:18,
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