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why do you think the tiktok use case is not a good technology? isnt that use case simply short form video content?

As it happens, I just finished talking about this on the TGFN podcast, we'll have a book review episode out in a week or two on The Shallows, and what the internet is doing to our brains. Tiktok is distraction and mind control technology and erodes our individual sovereignty and memory. Part of this comes from its algorithms, part from the design.

I don't think short form video content is inherently bad (I for example really like Marco Polo), I'd be very interested to see what people can do by re-building it on nostr. I'm just probably not the person to do so.

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roya ୨୧ 2y ago

i think that’s every single social media though. i mean every social media has copied the tiktok video scroll. reels on ig and twitter will just keep scrolling videos based on the algorithm. it’s not okay at all, but we have to remember that it’s not just one.

hodlbod 2y ago

Yeah, absolutely agreed. I'm honestly not even sure "social media" as we understand it is redeemable, but I'm going to try. I do think digital marketplaces, chat groups, and other things on a smaller scale are more obviously beneficial to society.

roya ୨୧ 2y ago

i agree with you.

also will never understand why people let their children on anything especially tiktok. ipad kids scare me bad

hodlbod 2y ago

Horrifying, might as well let them have meth

roya ୨୧ 2y ago

i mean they’re prescribing kids adderall like it’s candy so they basically are 😭

hodlbod 2y ago

😬 you're right, I forgot about that

roya ୨୧ 2y ago

we’re fucked.

the things my friend who’s an elementary school teacher tells me about how the kids are these days is worst than horror movies.

parents don’t want to parent anymore. it’s so sad

hodlbod 2y ago

☹️

p motherfuckin v 2y ago

A toddler overdosed on fentanyl in the Bronx this week. The daycare workers forgot to clean up their sidegig stuff 😣

roya ୨୧ 2y ago

yup :( happens in the lou a lot, that or people leave their guns out and kids will think it’s a toy… https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-courts/children-injured-or-killed-by-gunfire-in-the-st-louis-area-in-2023/collection_bc6d3b7f-0e9d-584b-b27f-c0a7683b1ecf.html

p motherfuckin v 2y ago

😢

ben 2y ago

nice, I’ll keep an eye (ear?) out for the pod.

agreed on all fronts! I won’t be building it either but I hope someone does.