<story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belval</author><text>I hate TikTok because it&amp;#x27;s so good. It&amp;#x27;s a frictionless content pump that we can open and doom-scroll for hours. I have never seen such a beautifully crafted user experience, from the recommendation algorithm that is top-notch the content that is catchy and highlights trends without overdoing it and the absence of political content if you don&amp;#x27;t engage with it (or maybe there is none at all).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have it on my phone, but I truly see it as the pinnacle of the stupidly addictive social media app and it scares me because it means that Chinese companies are just as capable as us to spin the next Facebook and distribute propaganda to the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>MasterScrat</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s super interesting to compare it with Facebook&amp;#x27;s attempt at the same mechanisms with Instagram Reels:&lt;p&gt;- terribly redundant content (as in, I see multiple times the exact same content from different accounts)&lt;p&gt;- content ripped off and reposted from original creators by spam accounts&lt;p&gt;- complete destruction of the original Instagram app to try to force-feed Reels down your throat&lt;p&gt;TikTok looks so simple when you use it because everything just works. Using Reels makes you realise all the ways there are to fuck it up!</text></comment>
<story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>belval</author><text>I hate TikTok because it&amp;#x27;s so good. It&amp;#x27;s a frictionless content pump that we can open and doom-scroll for hours. I have never seen such a beautifully crafted user experience, from the recommendation algorithm that is top-notch the content that is catchy and highlights trends without overdoing it and the absence of political content if you don&amp;#x27;t engage with it (or maybe there is none at all).&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t have it on my phone, but I truly see it as the pinnacle of the stupidly addictive social media app and it scares me because it means that Chinese companies are just as capable as us to spin the next Facebook and distribute propaganda to the next generation.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>curiousllama</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve decided to outsource dopamine production to The Chinese Algorithm and honestly it&amp;#x27;s going great</text></comment>