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Comment by bsenftner

7 hours ago

It's pretty simple, the Tiktok algorithm recognizes the value of long term user satisfaction of it's users, and all the American Tech Algorithms are blind to anything long term, and plus the "user" is not the customer in the American tech product, the advertiser is, American social media is a product for the advertisers and not for the users. This is clear as day.

TikTok's algorithm is also nearly instant.

From time to time it will show you content adjacent to what you watch. After three or so viewings your feed will add the content you watched/engaged with regularly.

Press "not interested" twice (or sometimes once), and content will disappear.

American social media effectively ignores any input from users.

  • so much this. tiktok can easily be trained to provide you pretty much exact content you desire from it while no other social media platform (is willing) can do the same

    • > no other social media platform (is willing) can do the same

      Are we sure? My experience with Instagram is the opposite, whenever you linger a bit on a reel you'll start to get more of that content

      It's a pain because you have to constantly press "not interested" to curate your feed, I'd pretty much prefer to have content feeds, so that I can watch anything without having it go in my (im)permanent record

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