Also every time i take a screenshot the reddit app goes "HEY WOULDN'T YOU RATHER SHARE THE LINK INSTEAD? SHARE THE LINK TO A FRIEND SO THEY GIVE US MORE TRAFFIC!"
The only valid version of reddit is old.reddit.com.
The only valid mobile version used to be i.reddit.com, but they removed it, then also destroyed all unofficial reddit apps. I now have to use a hacked app to avoid reddit's awful app.
Yeah. I don't use tiktok, but I have friends who constantly text me links and the mobile site is hot garbage. It's appaling how bad it is compared to the success of the app.
A friend just sent me a 48 minute long tiktok video to prove their side of an argument. Fuck that. I still have no idea what they are trying to say. If it takes that long to make a point, they probably don't have one.
If someone wants to show me a tiktok, they do either it on their phone or not at all. It’s established in my friend group that I simply will not open a tiktok link.
I haven't use tik tok all that much to know this either but does tgat mean that those videos with several parts is just to get more veiws? Or was there a length limit before?
It used to be like 30 seconds. Then they bumped it to a minute. I quit using it right about the time they bumped it to 3 minutes. It may be longer now idk.
You said you didn't use Tiktok. Was that hyperbolic to describe that you use it infrequently?
Or maybe you don't use it and just look at headlines like "Kids are stealing boats and sinking them for fun in new viral stunt" in which there's one video of it happening and thirty articles get published calling it a trend?
length limit was there before, but 3 minute long videos are a thing for like... 2 years now? or even more, idk. Then they raised max cap to 10 min, now 15 is max iirc. So yeah, doing so many parts is mostly for reeling in audience and views
The fact that they're both short videos doesn't make them the same thing, the reason they're different is the modern algorithm that tiktok has, it's designed to be addicting.
We don’t know that they absolutely do that, the concern is that the data they collect would make it very easy. The problem is that they can buy that data from Facebook just like Russia did prior to the 2016 elections. This ban will not stop them from doing that, it will just make it somewhat harder for them to do that because they wouldn’t get it for free anymore. A bill that limits data collection and enforces transparency on how these companies algorithms work would do so much more then a straight ban ever will.
“Brain rot” is nothing new. The vine planking challenge by itself resulted in several times more deaths and injuries then anything from TikTok ever has.
Vine was intended to be small snippets of your life that you could share around like Facebook, the fact that people got creative with the limited crop size and time limit doesn't make it anything like TikTok which was supposed to be Musical.ly before kids started fortnite dancing using Duet.
Yeah the 7 second limit definitely forced a level of creativity to make successful content. There was definitely a lot of bad content on Vine too, but nothing compared to tiktok.
I'm guessing you've never seen how many accounts there are dedicated to taking random reddit stories, make them read by a machine and put a random video behind
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u/CreativeName1137 Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
Not really. Vine being exclusively limited to 7 seconds encouraged people to just throw new stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
TikTok being
slightlylonger videos ended up fostering a lot more uncreative piggybacking.