[julienb_sea]

My experience is the opposite. TikTok curation is incredibly efficient at honing in on the content niches that appeal to you. My TikTok feed feels very personal, I regularly interact in the comments and find some truly insightful discussions there. Reddit is a totally random mess of crap that I used to like. The manual curation of subreddits feels outdated and a pain compared to TikTok's ability to "organically" bring me to content that I am interested in at the moment.

[dehue]

Tiktok and Reddit give completely different experiences. Tiktok has good video content but I love Reddit for its extensive comment sections where people can write paragraphs upon paragraphs on various topics with links and explanations. There are so many posts with long discussions and opinions on every topic imaginable.

My attempts at commenting on Tiktok with anything informative have failed as the super short comment limit makes explaining anything very frustrating. Tiktok just doesn't have a commenting culture and most people stick to emojis and a few word comments which aren't conductive to interesting discussions.

[witchesindublin]

The front page and discovery parts of Reddit are being replaced by TikTok.

The major subreddits of Reddit are being destroyed by the moderation and are basically echo chambers.

The remaining users are barricading themselves into a handful of subreddit which offers no real advantage over forums (except for how the branching layout of Reddit threads mimics pre-forum chat rooms).

[kkarakk]

>My attempts at commenting on Tiktok with anything informative have failed as the super short comment limit

why are you trying to communicate something informative in a comment? just make a reply video.

[SSLy]

How do you initially train the tiktok algo? I don't have the willpower to wade through videos of children crying or dancing, acapella singers, people having small accidents, and so on.

And I swipe next as soon as I realize it's this kind of content.

[travelton]

It's far more efficient to search and subscribe to accounts that produce content you're interested in. Consider disliking things to help the algorithm figure out your interests. Long hold on any video, tap "Not Interested".

[JoshGlazebrook]

You already described how to train it. It can't magically know what you are into without any input.

[kkarakk]

first i followed content creators i knew i'd like(legacy from other platforms), then the algo catches up really quickly.

also you have to be REALLY strict about the stuff you watch - if something comes up that you don't like the look of you can instantly swipe away. that trains the algo more accurately than saying you don't like something using built in tools but you can do that too if you really object to something.

for me it usually takes less than a week to train a new account to specific content, less than a day if it isn't niche("gaming" is easier to train than "gym exercises focused on strength over hypertrophy")