• lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    yeah I downloaded tiktok to see what the deal was

    I am immediately bombarded with some stupid auto play video I didn’t ask for, so I swipe it away

    which just sends me another stupid video in an endless stream of garbage

    I’ll never understand this type of social media, it truly felt like idiocracy

    • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      I don’t use TikTok but my understanding is that their algorithms are actually pretty good and the more you watch videos the better it gets at recommending them. The first ones it recommends are by definition going to be generic since it doesn’t yet know what you’re into and is just probing around.