the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high

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I've been blissfully unaware of this trend, because I'm not on any other social media! I get that posting this is a bit of smug self-satisfaction, which nobody likes, but I feel strongly that corporate social media is a scourge, and that far too many people farm out their critical thinking to random "content creators." Black-box content algorithms are not doing you any favors, and they will affect your thinking if you subject yourself to them.

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Unlikely

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The man of culture part was.

Generally I think the dislike of Tiktok has to do with purity culture more than anything else. I typically find people who hate on Tiktok to be misinformed, willfully ignorant, massively hypocritical, or a combination thereof

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End comes after 10 minutes of video with nothing happening. And when something does happen, it's half out of frame and completely underwhelming.

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I've seen it twice on lemmy just today

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I think realising something is specifically designed predatory addiction engine and then practicing self restraint to avoid that product isn't being misinformed or something to be ashamed of.

TikTok, YT shorts, IG, they are all the same, and are categorically unhealthy for anyone; much less the youth.

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See, this is the purity culture, and it's always so selectively applied.

Things can have both good and bad aspects. Lots of good things can be bad when used too much.
Lemmy is much the same way. You say it was specifically designed to be an addiction engine, but all that involves is showing you things you like. Lemmy is the same, just that the algorithm is so simple that it can't show you any discovery or new things.
You can find similar arguments about almost every part of the internet.

Are there problems with Tiktok? Of course. There are also amazing parts of Tiktok. Just like Lemmy. Just like Mastodon. Just like pixelfed.

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You misunderstand the key design principles though. They are designed so that people struggle to have the strength of will to put the apps down, because every third thing they click through is generating ad revenue.

Lemmy isn't perfect, but I, like many others, have no issue putting it down when I'm done with it. I personally check it for about 10 minutes when I wake up and before I sign off for the night.

Its worth noting that Lemmy doesn't have an algorithm, it just shows you posts in chronological order (technically not true, as there are community ratios and such, but it's true enough for a general statement).

My disdain for these apps is born from watching family and friends waste days (sometimes 8+ hours at a time) on them, and then often being totally incapable of recalling anything they've watched or learned. It's actively harmful to their health.

Strepto

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dont forget to getting redirected to a suspicious page bcuz u missed the close button by 1 pixel

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Subscribed

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Lmao it's because people attention spans are literally like 2 seconds.

Shits sad

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What about the people who are worried about the harmful mental and physical effects that TikTok has on people? The privacy concerned trying to keep their data safe? What about empty and repetitive content? TikTok is a wormhole of negative behavior, and as much as there can be interesting content on the platform the majority is overhyped and recycled garbage(independent of your interests). If the platform was not a massive conveyor belt feeding empty content for the sake of money I would be somewhat ok with it. I've tried TikTok, Vine and even Snapchat and personally it is quite fun doing short video content(informative, silly or otherwise) but I do not enjoy being treated as a pig to be fed.

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My thoughts exactly

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It's more so that the uploader gets the most watch time and engagement and therefore the biggest paycheck per video.

BTW, down voting is seen as engagement and prioritized just the same as up voting. Doesn't matter which button you're pushing as long as it's on the platform.

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Nah, it's because it's never anything worth watching. If you have to tell people to wait until the end, it's because there's nothing in that first 55 seconds worth seeing.

There's good short-form content
out
there, and none of it begs you not to swipe away

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Surely you aren't talking about Game Changer, the best game show, the reason Dropout is worth paying for

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New trends

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I've heard this law mentioned before, but interestingly in that same Wikipedia article there are several studies mentioned that seemed to conclude it's not true at all:

A 2016 study of a sample of academic journals (not news publications) that set out to test Betteridge's law and Hinchliffe's rule (see below) found that few titles were posed as questions and of those that were questions, few were yes/no questions and they were more often answered "yes" in the body of the article rather than "no".

A 2018 study of 2,585 articles in four academic journals in the field of ecology similarly found that very few titles were posed as questions at all, with 1.82 percent being wh-questions and 2.15 percent being yes/no questions. Of the yes/no questions, 44 percent were answered "yes", 34 percent "maybe", and only 22 percent were answered "no".

In 2015, a study of 26,000 articles from 13 news sites on the World Wide Web, conducted by a data scientist and published on his blog, found that the majority (54 percent) were yes/no questions, which divided into 20 percent "yes" answers, 17 percent "no" answers and 16 percent whose answers he could not determine.

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I have blocked at least one "videos" community, since I have no interest in watching anything masquerading as informative. I've been on Lemmy a bunch lately, so I can only assume that I've pre-emptively blocked the instance or community where it's being posted.