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by ggus 1582 days ago
My experience exactly, and my friend's experience too. I'm inclined to think every "tiktok is soo great after you put time into it" comment I see is some form of Stockholm syndrome..
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The content you like might not be very available on tik tok. From personal experience, it’s able to hone down on niches you like pretty quickly.

Most impressively, without having an account or liking specific videos, it can narrow down the information. Especially since they have to use some kind of algo to contextually understand videos without hashtags or subtitles.

> Most impressively, without having an account or liking specific videos, it can narrow down the information. Especially since they have to use some kind of algo to contextually understand videos without hashtags or subtitles.

I think they use some kind of object recognition to sort videos . Like if you watch videos with one particular object, you are more likely to see videos with that object.

You have to actively engage and be focused or you'll get lost..