The problem with this is the smaller communities are completely drowned out by larger ones with top/x. Same with hot, to be honest. The algorithm needs to be updated to float smaller communities posts to the top proportionally somehow.
I hate to admit it, but the only thing I've been to reddit for is loading the dadjokes subreddit daily, because there's not enough engagement on the lemmy one to get a good joke for my daily standup meeting.
Other than that, been off it from browsing entirely
Tax the shit out of residential real estate investments for corporations and anything beyond the first 3 dwellings owned by individuals. Carve out exceptions for apartment complexes.
B) you need to qualify for a mortgage, even with first time homebuyer programs
C) you severely underestimate what the mortgage is
D) people aren't always expecting to live in the same area for more than 5-7 years, at which point you've spent tons of money on closing and PMI that you absolutely aren't coming out ahead on
Like the incredibly well documented YouTube red-pill pipeline?
If you're going to China or are one of their citizens traveling abroad, TikTok profiling is probably not the top of your surveillance concerns. If you don't want impacts from Chinese data collections, don't go to China 🤷 I sure won't.
If i had never used YouTube, I'd say the same thing about it compared to cable TV (in fact many people did). Flash back to MTV in the 90s and see what people were saying about music videos and their effect on society.
Ultimately, you're allowed to not like it because you don't like the format. It doesn't mean it's impossible to have quality content. It also doesn't mean it's more or less invasive of an app because you don't like the format (as my original assertion of this UnOp post).
Pull up the top 50 YouTubers today and tell me how many of them are something you would consider "quality".
If what you hate is "random people filming themselves doing something irrelevant", I've got some bad news about the vast majority of accounts that post on YouTube.
Why is it bad for one app to share data to their country when all other apps are sharing data to theirs, not to mention selling data to data brokers who can do literally anything.
Call for legislation of data brokers if you're interested in calling for anything.
There's nothing inherently good or bad about a video format. You sound like the people complaining about the bars on their 4x3 TVs when widescreen format started coming out.
I'll agree it's easier to consume, because it's made for the device on which it's being consumed; just like widescreen was made for theaters, and not 4x3 TVs
Are many tiktok users gathering ideas, asking questions and looking into this stuff further? I do not see this at all.
Yes. You don't see it because you don't use it.
You can very much search and follow creators and topics. You can view a feed of just subscribed profiles. I do wish there were ways to make lists of profiles to have more focused feeds at different times, but that's hardly a scathing indictment.
There's more widescreen content because it's an older format. A video creator doesn't innately prefer one format or another; they use the format of their platform. This argument is no different than saying "if someone wants to educate, they'll never use videos, they'll only use books".
So I guess after this whole thread, the thing we land on is: agreeing to disagree that "vertical videos are annoying".
Obvious troll is obvious