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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 96 points 2 years ago

I was fine with memes over the past few years ... sure they are a quick dopamine hit that make you laugh or think

But now when my friends send me tiktok videos ... especially when someone has been watching these video streams for hours or days ... they start sending out the most random, inane, mindless content ... it's the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 56 points 2 years ago

it's the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.

I think that's kind of the point. There was an article a while back that said the CCP/Bytedance intentionally serve up braindead content to everywhere outside China, while promoting educational and uplifting content at home.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have one 50 year old friend with very little tech know how and his kids set him up with a good smartphone. I saw his family about a year ago and his kids noted that their dad often sits up until about 2 or 3 in the morning at the kitchen table just scrolling through tiktok videos. He sent them to me about once a day until I had to block him and tell him directly to stop sending me this stuff. He's since become 'aware' of his addiction and stops sending out videos as often as he did before. He still scrolls through thousands and thousands of videos a day.

It would all be funny if it wasn't so frightening at the same time.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 29 points 2 years ago

No kidding. I just find it ironic that the generation that kept saying "TV will rot your brain" is now completely consumed by social media.

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[-] Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh shit!

This post actually made me look for a solution and I found one!
Solution to opening tiktoks without using tiktok app or site, not how to stop ur friends sending u garbage.

It made me think... mpv player can play basically any link you throw at it (thanks to yt-dlp), and we also have mpv on Android, so why can't we do it there as well. And sure enough, I found this https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/pull/58, someone baked yt-dlp in mpv for Android, making it possible to open link in mpv (share >> play in mpv)

It works for instagram and all other shit.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Can't wait to try this out. Thanks for sharing.

[-] pacoboyd@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

I have just moved to mpv from mx player due to this comment. Thanks!

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[-] ZOSTED@sh.itjust.works 53 points 2 years ago

I felt this way with instagram. My phone can barely handle the web app and you can't even replay the video without an account. Truly garbage UX

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 years ago

Im pretty sure that meta purposefully makes the mobile websites for all their products as shit as possible to get people to use the real apps instead

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's what literally all social media sites do. It is far more profitable for people to be using your app than your mobile website. Apps make it much easier to harvest data and corral the user into the exact experience you want them to have (ads, suggestions, etc).

I know not many people here are going back to Reddit but just for a second, open your mobile browser, disable the add-ons if it's firefox, and go look at Reddit currently. Within the last few weeks they have absolutely massacred it. Like, truly, it is astoundingly bad now. The original mobile redesign of the site was already terrible, but this new-new-mobile reddit is so painfully bad that the only conceivable reason for its existence is to get people to give up and use the app.

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[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Any phone can barely handle the web app

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

I just shared this with my wife, since she has started sharing TikTok lately.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 years ago

Sorry to hear your marriage is on the rocks mate. Hopefully it's just a phase.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago
[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

She sent this as a reply:

It's too late for me. Save yourselves!

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[-] byroon@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago
[-] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years ago

It's both. So annoying when the first bit is muted and you can't replay.

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[-] TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

PSA: If it's links on Discord, you can prefix the link with vx to make it natively embed so you don't have to click through (e.g. vxtiktok.com). This also works with twitter links (vxtwitter.com). People out there hosting these domains doing the lord's work

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

I just don't respond but she's not getting the hint.

[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

I just ignore them because the videos are a mess of graphics and popups outside the app. It has literally made some videos unwatchable for me as they kept getting interrupted and breaking.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

It's the worst mobile website I've ever seen, which is impressive considering Facebook and Reddit have been intentionally breaking their mobile websites for years now.

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 years ago

As always I like promoting open source frontends for these pages. For tiktok I use proxytok. For changing any tiktok link to one of these instances use the libredirect extension for firefox, it also works in mobile

[-] hark@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

Do memes stop being memes when they're on tiktok?

[-] AnxiousDuck@feddit.it 16 points 2 years ago

Have you heard about our lords and saviors the alternative frontends?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Suddenly glad all of my friends are old people like me.

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 12 points 2 years ago

old people like me

The person who sends me far more TikTok videos than anyone else is my boomer dad.

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid 15 points 2 years ago

i shall retaliate with fediverse links

[-] frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 14 points 2 years ago

This is why I wrote a Telegram bot that uses yt-dlp to convert videos and send them directly to people. My friend group all use different socials, Facebook, tiktok, Twitter, Lemmy, etc., and the bot will take the link, download the video, then send it back to the person, and then they can forward it to whatever chats they want.

It's been pretty fucking handy. That is, if your friends use Telegram.

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[-] LuckingFurker 14 points 2 years ago

Just watch the TikToks, nobody cares

[-] EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website 33 points 2 years ago

I care.

This is a Cambridge Analytica waiting to happen all over again.

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[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Ugh… I can feel this in my bones.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Why don't they just actually send the video file?

[-] schnokobaer@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago

Those apps purposely don't make it trivial to download the files do they? You probably could but someone who swipes Tiktok all day can not.

[-] raginghummus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Lots of tiktoks can be downloaded easily, but still, they can be large, why send those around when you can just send a link

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 years ago

I'll usually tell him that the sound isn't working when I open it in the browser and I'm not downloading the app. But he keeps... on... trying...

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

Copy link, paste into browser incognito

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