I’m curious as to how many of you are TikTok users. If not do you watch short form videos anywhere else such as YouTube Shorts or Reels?
No Toktik, no Instagram, no YouTube shorts since LibreTube. I only watch some that my subscribed channels post occasionally.
No.
Short form videos are brain cancer, ask any child psychologist or teacher
No, I avoid them as much as possible.
Remember that all these responses are from Lemmy users, so this is not even slightly representative of a real-world survey!
I’m sure OP knows this. Its likely they want to see the middle of a vendiagram: People that use Lemmy and also watch short form videos.
No need. All the content from TikTok I wanna see gets copied and posted to everything other than TikTok so I get all the stupid short form videos I want with none of the Chinese spyware.
If TikTok is banned, either YouTube Shorts will be used or a new site/app will take over. The hole left by Vine will be filled one way or another.
No need either. My daughter shows me the best of in a curated fashion every day.
Unpopular here, but yes, every day. I’ve been on it since 2019 and my wife and I will cuddle and watch tiktoks that we’ve sent each other throughout the day. We call it “TikTokTime” and really it’s just a debrief period after work where we have time to look at the funnies together and decompress.
I also value tiktok as a social media website independent from influence by the US government that is more privacy-respecting than Instagram or YouTube. I use a modified version of the app that I don’t get shown ads or tiktok shop videos, as well as natively increasing watch speed.
I am also autistic, as is my wife. She’s also chronically ill. It’s nice that we found online communities of creators who go through the same stuff we do. And when it comes to misinformation, I am very liberal with the block button. The tiktok algo is unmatched by other social media companies.
I use a modified version of the app that I don’t get shown ads or tiktok shop videos, as well as natively increasing watch speed.
Please share with the class!
Also, it’s very sad to see you have downvotes for just honestly answering the question. Lemmy is great, but the nerds on here need to lighten the fuck up. Use an app to connect with your wife? How dare you!
I generally try to avoid direct links or names to protect the app staying up. But if you look for a telegram related to tiktok and a cloud that should point you in the right direction.
I’m not surprised by the downvotes on the original comment, it’s a vestige of former redditors who have an attitude that all social media is garbage. I value my digital privacy quite highly and I know how to protect it. I’m confident that a Singaporean company, ByteDance, is much better for data protection than handing it all over to the Zuck.
It’s a revanced patch.
Never have, never will.
Yes almost daily
No and no, I didn’t even use Vine
Fuck no. Fuck that fucking Chinese spyware bullshit
Never used or downloaded tiktok, only watched one YouTube short (it was an accident) and IDK what “Reels” is in this context. I’m very much not a fan of, or interested in, the extremely short form factor type of media. Just has zero interest for me
I tried it and it wouldn’t let me follow anyone. I tried searching by some of my interests but it doesn’t let you filter by date, so the same stuff shows up on searching that topic again. Since I couldn’t follow, my home feed was filled with the dumbest cringe content imaginable. Deleted my account promptly.
I do not but I do watch YouTube shorts. It’s genuinely addicting. I’ve had to remove the YouTube app from my home screen to help me break the habit of opening it every time I pick up my phone.
Fuck no
