[WesleyJohnson]

As another comment said, the more you use it the more it understand what you like and it gets better, and more addictive.

When I first started watching TikTok videos, I got the videos of 20-somethings dancing to the same song over and over and over. It was annoying. But now my "feed" is largely chefs making interesting dishes, like-minded people with opinions on politics (yes, I know echo chambers are dangerous), wood working, lawn care and pressure-washing videos for that dose of satisfaction, and then your random 10-second bytes of this generation's "America's Funniest Home Videos".

I don't watch every day, maybe a few days a week. But when I'm done watching, I'm usually grinning and feeling like it was time well spent, emotionally.

To each their own.

[derbOac]

I've heard this from various places, but it doesn't work for me. Maybe I'm "unlearnable" or something. I spend a couple of hours on it, get tired of it because it's not appealing to me, come back a few weeks later, do the same thing, and nothing improves.

Or it somehow comes to understand that there's certain general topics I'm interested in more than others, but they're all seemingly variations on the same theme, just applied to different topic areas.

I'm either completely missing something or the death of TikTok will become the fact that it is so predictable that it's memeable. Inevitably someone will make a TikTok satirizing TikToks, and then everyone will move [back] to something else.

Social media sometimes feels like an echo chamber to me, never quite right. Blogs, websites, forums, and so forth (yes, YouTube) all make sense to me. Sites focused on bottlenecking communication all lose something key imho. It's like they're taking something meant to be supplementary and trying to force it as the main conduit.