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by antoineMoPa 1774 days ago
There are a lot of tech-related accounts. There is also a lot of marketing, ux-design. Some examples :

- @therubberduckiee

- @loewhaley

- @tony.aube

- @cassidoo

- @systems_analyst

There is also urban design tiktok with @mrbarricade.

Let's also be clear that the goal of the app is to entertain and I think it does this really well and cheaply. Then sometimes you learn something that you might use in your work or personal life.
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deckard1 1774 days ago
I went through all those accounts you listed and this is all just aspirational meme garbage you see on IG. I feel like you're gaslighting us right now
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panorama 1774 days ago
I'm not who you replied to, but I find it hard to believe that you went to an account with the username "systems_analyst", who posts videos on networking and cybersecurity in an informative manner, and decided it was "aspirational meme garbage".

On HN, I give people who I disagree with the benefit of the doubt and assume they're always intelligent. But that doesn't extend itself to believing they're always arguing in good faith. I find it unfathomable that a critically thinking person truly believes a social network with close to a billion users is devoid of any useful content. I "feel" like you're trying to be contrarian and edgy for the sake of being so.

I think my earlier Twitter analogy is apt here. Of course you can't expect TikTok to be on par with Coursera. Similarly, you don't go to Twitter for dissertations. These social networks are entertainment first, and their algorithms and restricted formats lend themselves to a certain type of content. But the natural evolution of social networks at scale is that people easily discover new content that is legitimately useful to them, or find a community based on their professional or side interests.

I went to the #softwareengineering hashtag on TikTok and very quickly found a few helpful accounts. You can do this with any hashtag. Frankly, software dev TikTok feels more friendly than HN at a cursory glance.

https://www.tiktok.com/@shanselman

https://www.tiktok.com/@coderintuition

https://www.tiktok.com/@dantechtok

TikTok's audience age skews younger. I'm not saying these profiles will be helpful to you personally, but if I were in high school with a passing interest in development and got exposed to TikTok-style entertainment/info content, I probably would've started coding a lot earlier.

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