[theshrike79]

To be frank, the TikTok algorithm is the best of all the algorithmic doomscroll machines you can use.

Instagram is trash, Youtube Shorts is complete AI puke trash.

TikTok actually seems to "know" what I like seeing and clearly learns faster than the others.

A quick test just now:

  - Video about Amiga 500 in the 90s in Finland
  - A running gag about people having a Favourite Spoon
  - A recipe for Bao Buns
  - A skit about Japanese Shisa Kanko pointing and calling method
  - Book reviews of someone's favourite books of 2025
  - Someone tried to do floor work and found a massive shaft leading down under their house

Zero ads. All were from "real" people, not content farm accounts.

Instagram reels:

  - A "family account" skit, yech
  - Ad
  - A verified account reposting other's videos
  - Another one of those
  - Ad
  - A meme account
  - A meme account
  - Ad

Not even touching Youtube Shorts, they're even worse.

[amatecha]

That's cool, but yeah I won't use it regardless (just like I won't use any of the services you mentioned). It's all for-profit centralized extractive/exploitative stuff.