[pandesmos]

Never thought I’d be stanning for TikTok, but it’s really not just dancing and thirst traps.

There are so many excellent creators on it. Nature focused. Rare book dealers showing their wares. Medievalists. And trades, showing you how things work (herding sheep, thatching roofs, general home repairs). Not to mention all the artists (drawing, painting, sculpting, pottery, stained glass, sewing, etc).

It really excels in the area of photoshop/illustrator tutorials as well. None of the YouTube bloat, just a quick 1 minute video that shows you exactly how to do one cool thing.

Yes the cool stuff is buried under dancing teenagers spitting memes, but there’s exceptional creative stuff on there and an audience that buys that stuff.

[I_DRINK_KOOLAID]

No doubt they are there, but they are there by chance/habit (I think) not because the platform serves them well.

TikTok has all sorts of time limits and you can't even upload professionally shot content lasting more than x seconds. It's an app which revolves around the smartphone environment. That's very limiting

Instagram allows for much more flexibility.

[mig39]

Current limits are 10 minutes on my account. And I upload from my computer all the time, after editing on Final Cut Pro. I'm not a "professional" by any definition.

Check this guy out for an example of TikTok excellence: https://www.tiktok.com/@pintofplane

> It's an app which revolves around the smartphone environment. That's very limiting

You see a limit, but the millions of users see a really easy way to share videos :-)

[pandesmos]

One more: I’ve got a small print shop/publishing business. I’m interested in printing vinyl stickers but searching for “what machines should I be looking for and how should I judge them” has been an awful experience going face first into search engines.

But on TikTok, there are multiple small shops showing the machines they use, and how they use them on the daily. Talking about the problems they run into.