Look I love what you are doing and fully support you doing so, I was just giving my opinion on why TikTok style app would be a fools errand, especially on Nostr. Like I explained in my comment, TikTok styled apps can’t meaningfully function without extensive user tracking and lots of video content tailored to the app.
It’s not like YouTube where users browse and search for content, it’s a completely different concept that is insanely hard to emulate successfully.
I have worked on several TikTok clones, including at reddit, so I am intimately familiar with the main problems.
It's a semantics argument over what tik tok _is_ or _does_. I would generally agree. I think tiktoc, the format, the endless scrolling, the addiction are a plague on humanity and I won't take part in that.
Mind you, there are many nostr clients experimenting with tiktok like feeds and media format already. They might be dead now, but there were a few around.
As Marshal McLuhan said “the medium is the message”. TikTok as the medium is not only delivering content, it’s also shaping it.
But my point was more technical, TikTok-like video feed doesn’t make sense without unimaginable amounts of content, that can then be tailored to each user with really advanced tracking algorithms. Without those two things, it’s going to be boring. When you first install TikTok it actually sucks because it doesn’t yet know what videos you want, only after it learns what you like does it become good. It’s not like YouTube or Netflix, the UI is too constrained to function without those two things.
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TikTok’s ghost already lives rent-free in our feeds, nostr just gave it a decentralized coffin. Still, I prefer pixels that build, not just scroll. Come place one and rebel properly.
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