• SlimePirate@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        29 days ago

        To be more honest:

        Tiktok is actually very useful to find

        • very specific recipes
        • rare places to visit
        • specific tutorials
        • content in rare languages
        • insight from countries and cultures not found in regular media
        • some manifestation footage from the pov of the people
        • even some war/violent event footage before moderation and is better than Youtube, Reddit or a regular search engine for those.

        However, it also has huge amounts of

        • misinformation
        • political propaganda
        • dumb people
        • pseudoscience
        • mass surveillance

        and it’s usage has negative effects on brain such as:

        • reduced attention span
        • distorted time perception
        • boredom intolerance
        • MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de
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          28 days ago

          This is cope. TT feeds you the information you don’t need or search for it. If you search you will find better sources for everything. It’s just a big advertisement platform.

          Also tf is manifestation footage?

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            28 days ago

            How tf is this cope I don’t even use this shit. Just give me the better sources for everything then ? Because I know people who use it and they find things hard to find otherwise. Just because it’s a shit social media doesn’t mean you should lie about what it can do.

            Manifestation footage is footage of a manifestation. Quite often people I know who use tiktok talk to me about things going on in other countries that are not talked about in public media

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              28 days ago

              I don’t think its a good source for any of these, because its short videos. You don’t actually look for information there, because searching for specific these specific videos is hard. If you want specific information you gotta read, because text-based info is searchable.

              Recipes are on recipe websites, interesting places in local forums, same with rare languages. Tutorials are all over the internet.

              Protest are definetly not on the Chinese run social media, unless China wants it to be amplified.

              It’s maybe good for memes.

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          28 days ago

          To be objectively honest, all the useful things you listed are and always have been available elsewhere in the internet.

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              28 days ago

              Google? Query, then click on the video’s tab. Don’t want to use Google? You can also use Duck duck go, startpage.com, or anything similar using the same steps.

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                28 days ago

                Stupid comment. Search “rare places to visit” on google and get ready for 10 pages of AI slop articles and those that are not AI are always the same copy pasted from each other. On tiktok locals will make their own list of prefered places and show them and how to go there.

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                  28 days ago

                  Use before:yyyy/mm/dd and/or after:yyyy/mm/dd in the search box to specify date ranges, and search for results before 2020 to remove all the AI slop.

                  Much easier than giving away your data to a company known for spreading misinformation, pushing AI content and genuinely worsening social interactions online and in real life.

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            28 days ago

            It’s not sex in return for data, more like “you get sex, you lose confidence and any sense of self-worth, we will also show you ads every 3 seconds.”