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Comment by phito

3 months ago

Wait, since when is TikTok decentralised?

The information is decentralized (a hundred million different sources...), just not the infrastructure.

  • The way that it is distributed is centralized and controlled by a single party. You can generate content all day, but unless the algorithm pick you up and make you popular, your content may as well not exists.

  • The consumer doesn't choose what gets fed to them. Neither does the producer. Tiktok chooses who gets to see what. It's absolutely centralised, with crowd sourced content.