I downloaded Tik Tok thinking I could curate my feed to be cool leftist short videos but instead it's even more of a disgusting hellworld than Twitter. Every leftist video I land on (the algorithm will also suggest fascist videos) is either an argument between leftists and nazis, an argument between leftists and libs, or (more commonly) leftists arguing with other leftists. I've learned nothing and my mood is ruined.
Short videos and tweet length comments are systemically reactionary. Embrace the immortal science of posterism.
e: forgot to mention that the app is just straight up abusive to anyone who isn't a cis white dude
My TikTok feed is all good leftist content, mostly ML
The trick is that tik tok heavily favors videos you watch all of the way through and interact with when adding new ones to your feed and it can happen very quickly. If you scroll away immediately from three cat videos in a row you won’t see another cat video for like twenty minutes at least