You don’t need something to have a point at all, just make something apparently cool or trendy, and there always a crowd rush into the trend. Could you find the point of Labubus or Stanley cups besides its popularity?

I am not going to against the news part, as you could see my other replies from someone who find niche hobbies with it.

Your situation is similar to why I have quit Pinterest. Memes and jokes are fun, and some of the images are inspiring, but it simply wastes too much valuable time which I can learn something new or take a deep rest.

I don’t see this is a good reason to use TikTok.

The only valid use for “breaking news” imo, are disasters.

This is the reason why I have raised this question, as I don’t really understand why people are so into this platform since I don’t enjoy short form contents.

Perhaps just because it is short, with properly use, TikTok can discover many niche topics that we probably don’t know.

Does it change my decision of using this platform? Probably not because I prefer longer and slower paced contents, but I could at least know that TikTok is not just about brainrots or random people dancing like many people as claimed, at least now I know there are people finding their passion in this platform or discovering new place to explore.

Can you tell me what exactly THE ERROR when I want to find a single good thing about TikTok when I don’t understand it?

For your view point, you logic is the following for the good reason using TikTok:

“Addiction is bad, but many people are using it anyway, just like any media back in the days.”

Are you really sure you have answered A GOOD REASON of using TikTok? Sounds like a horrible argument for me. Addiction is a bad habit to begin with, it won’t magically validated just because the media has been changed.

Just put the political stuff aside, they are often too short for any details over any topics if not straightly brainrot, ending up making people get distracted and lost patience easily. I never a fan of YouTube shorts and instagram reels either because of the same reason.

Perhaps they are good for promotion, but as a user perspective, can anyone really point out one good reason to use these platforms?

Before generative AI, there were already a swarm of people who aimed at maximising the number of track they made within a short time, with abusing marketing. It is not wrong that they can pump up 100 tracks in a year, with a template and a specialised workflow and correct marketing techniques but… what is the story to these music? For many tracks, I only heard the story of:

> I am the most productive person and I can make most of the money because of that.

Quantity wise, for sure, they wins, but quality wise, I failed to imagine a more complex story than things above although they are good to hype the dance floor or a concert. These days, I mostly listen to music I have bought, or made by specific music communities because of their story behind their track despite not as perfect.

Same reasons why don’t I watch many movies since Ironman 3, most of the blockbusters follow the same winning formula rather than trying something new and in depth or unexpected, CGI and product placements all over the place instead of a good story.

AI just emphasised this problem even more since commercial “art” has been testing majorities’ newest lows.

There are differences between using a tool to create art or use it to spam.

It will be hilarious to see what people will come up with when they see brain rot content.

I think these kind of numbers are everywhere and not just specific to Python.

In zig, I sometimes take a brief look to the amount of cpu cycles of various operations to avoid the amount of cache misses. While I need to aware of the alignment and the size of the data type to debloat a data structure. If their logic applies, too bad, I should quit programming since all languages have their own latency on certain operations we should aware of.

There are reasons to not use Python, but that particular reason is not the one.

Soundcloud these days is nothing but a spambot filled website that have ripped countless users’ tracks and scam to earn fake followers, which the platform doesn’t block these bot but instead shallow banning proper users. The support is also nonexistent and my support ticket hasn’t being been responded for more than an year.

I ended up trashed my account because I got shadow banned for no reason while they keep on stripping off basic features. Some of the users in my community also faced the similar stories.

Unless there is an irreplaceable feature in SoundCloud you rely on, I see no reason to use it.

Either way, ableism or simply abusive behavior, both lacks respect, honestly and responsibility, which is a sign of immature behavior. Mature people can be playful, but they know when to act in the correct time, and definitely not in something that lead to a huge PR disaster.

Thus, being immature is the root cause of all these bad behaviors, including discrimination.

Luckily, every edits are recorded in history, so they can't really hide their abusive behavior, for now. Even if they did, seem like there are often people faster in archiving their posts than they hiding their post.

I basically just read that website the post referred to, sounds like AI slop to me: https://www.netguru.com/blog/web-4-0?ref=protein.xyz

https://github.com/david-vanderson/dvui

I think we need to stop saying that quote since the existence of subscription. Can you stop Google from tracking you or let you define your “algorithm” if you have purchased YouTube Premium and one of the Google Drive plans? I really doubt.

I think it is the value of the company matters. If their intentions is to keep investors happy, the users are always the product no matter paying or not. By contrast, there are quite a lot of free open source software doing the same for free, but the users still remain user.