what is there to like?
what is there not to like?
write out these two categories and you will come to the same conclusion as us
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I don’t hate it. I just don’t find it useful. I do hate how every trendy thing happens on there so when my coworkers ask me if I’ve seen some video I say no and they awkwardly walk away
im old
without the data harvesting nightmare, i would almost argue that TikToks culture-ish improved a bit, but even then i don't really feel the need to use it
I actually like tiktok. The only real problem I have with it is that I don't get to choose what content I consume, the feed is chosen for you, some other social media sites, while they do have recommendations and algorithms you can still pick and choose what you watch or read or look at. There is no thumbnail or preview image on tiktok, it just starts playing.
Cause my dad thinks its a good source for his arguments
its addictive
I don't understand it and it scares me
I don't hate it, video isn't my vibe. I didn't use Snapchat, or Shorts, or other similar features on social media.
I prefer text like Hexbear/Lemmy/Fediverse, The Website Formally Known As Twitter, Discord/Slack, and the like. In previous lives I used 
, Digg, Tumblr, AIM/ICQ/MSN, old-ass phpBB forums, etc. In fact, you can usually chart my participation through an inverse of how much it privileges multimedia.
It's hyper monitized.
I don't hate it, it's fine but I don't really use it, except if somebody sends me a link. I just went and scrolled a bit after seeing this thread, it's fine but also seems like it's already worse than the last time I did that since it was mostly showing me boring stuff I don't care about
THAT’S BECAUSE 9/11 CHANGED EVERYTHING!
People who remember what they were doing during 9/11 hate Tiktok, people who don’t remember what they were doing during 9/11 (or those who weren’t even born yet) all seem to love it.
It was 9/11’s fault. It was Osama’s fault. It was Bush’s fault.
Why do so many of you hate peepoo?
I think it's fine in general, just annoying for me to use.
Every time I try to use it, I end up staring in befuddlement at something I hate, whIch only pushes more of it to my fyp. Last time it became 90% disgusting recipes that were mostly cheese.
I'm kind of jealous of people who can use it and not have their algo become trash. There's obviously good content there.
Shittiest way to consume content.
The idea that you should intentionally be gimping yourself to a certain amount of seconds/text just seems fucking stupid. Forums are the superior way to post.
Hate is a strong word. I'm indifferent to TikTok. It's whatever. I don't really use it but other people do and good for them
I don't, though no real love for it either. I have a couple friends who are painfully addicted to it
I watch them when my friends send me them, but never installed the app or made an account. recently I watch them through proxitok because I like that kind of bullshit and being able to easily download the video if its good
I use it everyday so I wouldn't say I hate it.
I think their reporting system is dogshit and they basically do almost fucking nothing about reactionary content on the platform including outright nazi content.