I’m curious as to how many of you are TikTok users. If not do you watch short form videos anywhere else such as YouTube Shorts or Reels?
No Tiktok and am not a fan of short form videos in general.
The best of them will usually bubble up to Lemmy (formerly reddit) and/or my friends will send me a link. It’s worked pretty well. lol. I only see the best of it, and don’t have to deal with any of the rest.
No, I won’t ever use TikTok. I don’t watch any vertical video and I can’t stand shorts. I use a browser addon to hide Youtube shorts from my subscription list.
Don’t have TikTok, and despise that short form has taken over YouTube. It should be a separate app/space/whatever.
I still interact with TikTok links family and friends send me, and I fucking despise that. Close the “use the app” overlay, punch in the “I’m not a robot” code, turn on the volume (since when is muted the default video state, outside of porn?), and then loathe the fact that I just missed 60 percent of a glorified gif that I can’t rewind, and won’t repeat without pushing the app on me.
Nope, I’ve seen enough of their business practices and intent just from that interaction. It leaves me with no desire to sign up.
No. I don’t like short form video content. My attention span is longer. I retain information. I want explanations and datapoints, not silly memes or reactions.
Also I don’t want more apps on my phone, I don’t want more companies mining my life for data. I don’t want more privacy scandals. And I don’t want any more Chinese government involvement in my north-american life.
No need. All the content from TikTok I wanna see gets copied and posted to everything other than TikTok so I get all the stupid short form videos I want with none of the Chinese spyware.
If TikTok is banned, either YouTube Shorts will be used or a new site/app will take over. The hole left by Vine will be filled one way or another.
No need either. My daughter shows me the best of in a curated fashion every day.
No.
No and no. Fuck TikTok. Fuck YouTube. Fuck Facebook and all its derivatives. Fuck Snapchat. Fuck all of that bullshit.
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No, I avoid them as much as possible.
Remember that all these responses are from Lemmy users, so this is not even slightly representative of a real-world survey!
I’m sure OP knows this. Its likely they want to see the middle of a vendiagram: People that use Lemmy and also watch short form videos.
Unpopular here, but yes, every day. I’ve been on it since 2019 and my wife and I will cuddle and watch tiktoks that we’ve sent each other throughout the day. We call it “TikTokTime” and really it’s just a debrief period after work where we have time to look at the funnies together and decompress.
I also value tiktok as a social media website independent from influence by the US government that is more privacy-respecting than Instagram or YouTube. I use a modified version of the app that I don’t get shown ads or tiktok shop videos, as well as natively increasing watch speed.
I am also autistic, as is my wife. She’s also chronically ill. It’s nice that we found online communities of creators who go through the same stuff we do. And when it comes to misinformation, I am very liberal with the block button. The tiktok algo is unmatched by other social media companies.
I use a modified version of the app that I don’t get shown ads or tiktok shop videos, as well as natively increasing watch speed.
Please share with the class!
Also, it’s very sad to see you have downvotes for just honestly answering the question. Lemmy is great, but the nerds on here need to lighten the fuck up. Use an app to connect with your wife? How dare you!
It’s a revanced patch.
I generally try to avoid direct links or names to protect the app staying up. But if you look for a telegram related to tiktok and a cloud that should point you in the right direction.
I’m not surprised by the downvotes on the original comment, it’s a vestige of former redditors who have an attitude that all social media is garbage. I value my digital privacy quite highly and I know how to protect it. I’m confident that a Singaporean company, ByteDance, is much better for data protection than handing it all over to the Zuck.
Short form videos are brain cancer, ask any child psychologist or teacher
Absolutely not. It’s a Chinese disinformation weapon.
Actually, using the tiktok app in China offers a completely different experience with positive vibes and education about science research and technology. In contrast, tiktok is full of sultry practical jokes in the rest of the world.
Yes, that’s the entire point. They promote STEM topics to their own youth and funny silly brain-numbing dances to their political opponents.
In a number of years, China’s workforce will be scientists and engineers while the US will be full of influencers and microcelebrities who provide very little actual value.
They’re playing the long game.
Nope. I don’t really do videos, long or short form, but if I’m going to make an exception, it’s more likely to be for a medium/long video on a topic I’m interested in than idly flicking through random short videos about whatever it is TikTok thinks I should see
I don’t use the app, I don’t think I ever have, and if I am sent a link, Redirector extension for firefox(mobile) handles it for me by redirecting me to a proxitok instance.
