<![CDATA[So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet.]]>So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. I know, it's weird, I'm a grown-ass adult, and yet here we are.

I just spent like 30 minutes browsing TikTok and honestly it explains _so much_ about why... well, everything is just LIKE this, now.

it's... just wall-to-wall political misinformation, loud noises, boobs, kittens, AI slop, teenagers echoing white supremacist talking points, stunts, ads, get-rich-quick-schemes, it's like pure liquid USA

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/1739ce6c-4a24-4357-99d1-2b878b8bc210/so-uh-i-haven-t...-i-haven-t-tried-tiktok-yet.RSS for NodeFri, 05 Jun 2026 15:56:21 GMTSun, 31 May 2026 08:20:30 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:18:47 GMT]]>@codinghorror @cube_drone
Yeah but they're noisy AI white supremacist teenage AI boob ad stunts.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/FritzAdalis/statuses/116674810856582621https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/FritzAdalis/statuses/116674810856582621Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:18:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:59:30 GMT]]>@cube_drone so you’re saying there are boobs

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/codinghorror/statuses/116674735020231837https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/codinghorror/statuses/116674735020231837Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:59:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:23:42 GMT]]>I had to create a Facebook account for development. On the third login I got terrible right wing propaganda on top of my feed.
It is all so f**king broken

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/balangan/statuses/116673886427325051https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://troet.cafe/users/balangan/statuses/116673886427325051Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:23:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:50:04 GMT]]>@cube_drone i had this experience when i was 19 and a group of coworkers bullied me into using snapchat and they had to spend like an hour explaining to me how it works bcs the entire concept of snapchat is just so fucking alien to how i want to live my life and while i do miss the people when i stopped working there, boy was i glad to get rid of that shit again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.marty.tf/users/marty/statuses/01KT0VPV5QCQXK60A1EYWJN01Thttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fedi.marty.tf/users/marty/statuses/01KT0VPV5QCQXK60A1EYWJN01TMon, 01 Jun 2026 05:50:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:01:47 GMT]]>@the_moep TIL. That's sad.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/moreentropy/statuses/116673092454593485https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/moreentropy/statuses/116673092454593485Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:01:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:47:17 GMT]]>@neilk @apike I recall the feeling of relief when I started using mastodon and I realized I was looking at something incredibly stupid for a little too long , and I ... could? I could just look at something I didn't really like or want to commit to seeing Way More Of? After Facebook and Twitter the freedom of being able to choose what I want to see on my damn own felt heady and sorely missed

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/cube_drone/statuses/116672799545129728https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/cube_drone/statuses/116672799545129728Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:47:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:36:54 GMT]]>@cube_drone
(low, soothing, half-whispered tones): Watch it

Let it in...to your brain

Become One with The Body

America

Fuck yeah

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/mick_collins/statuses/116672050905816130https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.community/users/mick_collins/statuses/116672050905816130Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:36:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:03:33 GMT]]>@cube_drone
Technically you can stop it (as the EU's Digital Services Act requires large social media platforms to have a toggle to turn off algorithmic feeds), however TikTok hides that multiple layers deep in their settings to not hurt their profits. (While in the process violating EU laws)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.de/users/the_moep/statuses/116671919805461449https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.de/users/the_moep/statuses/116671919805461449Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:03:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:49 GMT]]>@moreentropy @cube_drone That was the zombie corpse of Musical.ly though. Bytedance killed that to push TikTok as an all-encompasing short video social media platform.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.de/users/the_moep/statuses/116671909013398681https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.de/users/the_moep/statuses/116671909013398681Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 23:51:42 GMT]]>@cube_drone And there you've hit on why I quit TikTok. You can curate it to content that is genuinely very good, but only if you expend significant effort teaching the algorithm what you want to see. And even then, you can't rest, you have to be constantly vigilant not to engage with the wrong thing, because just beyond the walls of your happy garden is a zombie horde stretching into the horizon. Same reason I quit Threads, and never bothered at all with a bunch of other algorithmic feeds.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/TorontoWill/statuses/116671873205841385https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/TorontoWill/statuses/116671873205841385Sun, 31 May 2026 23:51:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 23:43:14 GMT]]>@cube_drone It's as if a foreign adversary made a "Trojan horse app" that simply amplifies our online culture as its secret weapon.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/lmk/statuses/116671839891623759https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/lmk/statuses/116671839891623759Sun, 31 May 2026 23:43:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 23:14:58 GMT]]>@cube_drone my psychiatrist believes that that is also why ADHD cases have exponentially grown. She's like "do you use TikTok?" I laughed and said "I'm a grumpy millennial. I have more sense than that"

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/praetor/statuses/116671728742963956https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/praetor/statuses/116671728742963956Sun, 31 May 2026 23:14:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 23:02:35 GMT]]>@cube_drone We live in Canada, mind you, maybe they also do geographic-based algorithms?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116671680061601684https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116671680061601684Sun, 31 May 2026 23:02:35 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 23:01:32 GMT]]>@cube_drone
I *knew* there was a reason I am avoiding TikTok, you gave me several.

Thanks.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/EthicalProfessor/statuses/116671675942252386https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/EthicalProfessor/statuses/116671675942252386Sun, 31 May 2026 23:01:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:19 GMT]]>@apike @cube_drone

I don't think I am a good enough person to survive microseconds of reaction time being scrutinized. I will take 0.3 seconds more to swipe away when it's something I'm vulnerable to, and TikTok is there, going "noted. you want another one of those?? how about another? another?"

That's the stuff I'm _consciously_ avoiding. There are more subtle traps, like feeding my rage addiction about legitimately bad things, or entrancing me with brainrot splitscreens

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/neilk/statuses/116671667183204632https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://xoxo.zone/users/neilk/statuses/116671667183204632Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 22:49:33 GMT]]>@cube_drone
> I'm a grown-ass adult

This simple statement is strong justification for *not* using TikTok

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sw-development-is.social/users/bignose/statuses/116671628799147292https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://sw-development-is.social/users/bignose/statuses/116671628799147292Sun, 31 May 2026 22:49:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 22:43:36 GMT]]>@cube_drone Interesting. My wife is on Tiktok (read-only) and I see a representative selection of what is in her feed and she has none of those things. I suppose there is a default raw feed that is garbage but she would have curated her follows a few years ago and whatever is algorithmically shown maybe is based on that?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116671605425038490https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://cosocial.ca/users/virtuous_sloth/statuses/116671605425038490Sun, 31 May 2026 22:43:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 22:39:50 GMT]]>@neilk @cube_drone, hah. I've completely ignored Shorts for the trivially simple reason that what I briefly saw of it was entirely portrait-layout video. (If it were landscape, I'd probably be ignoring it because the content was not of interest…)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/lp0_on_fire/statuses/116671590567903164https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.linux.pizza/users/lp0_on_fire/statuses/116671590567903164Sun, 31 May 2026 22:39:50 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 22:34:00 GMT]]>@cube_drone@mastodon.social I'm so sorry you had that experience. I mean, I was going to say, "yeah, you're a grown ass adult, that's why you haven't tried TikTok." But um, well I guess, now you know.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.openpsychology.net/notes/amxx82qcjwp800mkhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://social.openpsychology.net/notes/amxx82qcjwp800mkSun, 31 May 2026 22:34:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 22:02:49 GMT]]>@cube_drone 😂🤣😂 yep

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/jake4480/statuses/116671445069613154https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://c.im/users/jake4480/statuses/116671445069613154Sun, 31 May 2026 22:02:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 21:44:37 GMT]]>@cube_drone I remember the „early days“ when TikTok was new (here). It was lovely, it was creative. Mostly people lip syncing to other sounds and innocent skits from all around the world. No influencing at all, just creativity. It was fascinating. It’s long gone.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/moreentropy/statuses/116671373490925550https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/moreentropy/statuses/116671373490925550Sun, 31 May 2026 21:44:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 21:38:40 GMT]]>@cube_drone I've never made a go of it either. And I'm not in the US, though, so it's a bit different
Friends share fun ones on elsewhere. There's good people on it too - as with just about everything. Doesn't mean I want its claws in me, Meta has ruined the technojoy I once had for socials

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.games/ap/users/115798900176839373/statuses/116671350091274528https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.games/ap/users/115798900176839373/statuses/116671350091274528Sun, 31 May 2026 21:38:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 21:10:33 GMT]]>@cube_drone Yes! For what it's worth, you can prod TikTok to give you a pretty wholesome high-quality feed by reinforcing what you want (swipe away or "not interested" and certainly don't comment or spread the bad stuff). But that doesn't fix the fact everybody else is getting the bad stuff

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/apike/statuses/116671239521877204https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/apike/statuses/116671239521877204Sun, 31 May 2026 21:10:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to So, uh, I haven't... I haven't tried TikTok yet. on Sun, 31 May 2026 13:40:39 GMT]]>@cube_drone

Don't forget MAID if you get a hangnail.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/ajh/statuses/116669470409545048https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://indieweb.social/users/ajh/statuses/116669470409545048Sun, 31 May 2026 13:40:39 GMT