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Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.
Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.
I guess my attention span isn't short enough for that type of sites.
I’m right there with you, but I don’t see a compelling reason why either should be banned.
I wouldn't say that I don't see the appeal of it. I would probably get sucked right in if I gave it a shot. It's a consciouss decision on my part to simply not do that. I don't not-consume short-form media because I'm better than the people who do, I prohibit it from myself.
Drag gave youtube shorts a try when it came out, and then installed an extension to disable them because they're boring.
I would scroll a bit after someone linked me a video. Content was fun, but after like 3 minutes, I could feel something wrong in my brain. Like just the nonstop influx of content with no breaks. You might think one video was faked, but you didn't have enough time to contemplate it before another shows up in its place.
I have some friends who spend hours on it. I can't imagine deciding to participate in that for so long.
Short video formats on all platforms make me very quickly feel like I'm going crazy. Just one voice after another, trying to cram whatever they have to say into your ears, or one joke taken out of context, or one simplistic moral, or absurdist humor that wouldn't hold up for longer than a few seconds. My partner watches endless "reels" on Facebook, and that hurried talking they all do, with all those cuts to make sure there's no gap between words, makes me fell very weird and agitated. It's like everyone has the same voice. And then it keeps looping. I waste far too much time on Lemmy but the short video stuff seems like another level of brain melt.
TikTok has tons of issues but this bugs me so much. There are many examples of people sharing their creativity, their skill, their knowledge, their passion to the world on tiktok and it's so good at exposing you to it if you are interested in seeing all kinds of people expressing themselves.
Since when does the value of content correlate directly with the amount of time it consumes?
is brevity no longer the soul of wit??
Maybe, if that's your only goal.
Trying to make any sort of nuanced or subtle point about anything important is pretty much impossible in such an artificially limited format, though.
Sure, simple political memes can be done in a compact frame, but actually discussing the framework surrounding that meme, or trying to correct a bit of misinformation is not really possible to do under those same limitations of time or character count.
there's more to life than political discourse 🤷♂️
If they want to share all of that, what hinders them to start an actual blog?
What hinders them to start a newspaper column?
I actually help run a blog, so I know first hand how many barriers there are between a blogger and their audience and it's getting worse all the time. These days even if you do make good content that people are looking for, the search engines summarize your content or rank higher content which has scraped your content and summarized it.
that's even if you have the skills to set up a blog and the resources to fund it. Not everyone has that and if they don't, does that mean their content shouldn't be seen?
trust me, I wish the Internet was different but with things like TikTok, you just have to focus on making your content and it takes care of bringing it to the people. With a blog, you really need to seek people out and a lot of people are turned off by self-promotion.
And yeah, I know there's an argument that people shouldn't need other's validation or attention for their art but also as a creative person it is demoralizing to make stuff that no one ever sees.
You talk like a redditor, someone who needs people to hear their opinion even if it doesnt add anything.
I'm willing to bet close to 100% of lemmy.world users are from reddit. Where does this sense of superiority come from?
Chances are they came from reddit too lol