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The links don’t even work half the time and take me some random-ass video.
I’ve had that problem. But more often I have them correctly opening, but they start autoplaying muted by default. So I would have to frantically search for the unmute button or volume slider as fast as I can before I miss more than 2 or 3 sentences.
If it takes too long, then I probably didn’t wanna watch it anyway. I always hated it because it would throw banners at me advertising the app, which I expressly do not want. I had it downloaded one time for about 10 minutes on my last phone, and felt the ick immediately.
I don’t get them often, and typically only as discord channel messages. Lately they’re embedded so I don’t need to open them in a browser. It seems to be working now, but it was a mess for a while.
I literally can’t, because I’ve got tiktok DNS-blocked
I’m that friend, but I’ve started downloading tiktoks and send the video file instead of a link so I know they’ll watch it
Same here. Can’t download video means it’s not worthy of a share.
That’s why I use TikNot, so I don’t have to use TikTok itself or have an account.
WWWWHHHAAAT. Thank you, just heard of this now. I’ve beeb asking for screen recordings, gonna try and remember this from now on
I need to get a new source for memes. Using Reddit less and less and having access to meme sources would help the decline.
yeah… i really wish there was a FOSS alternative to reddit with tons of shitposting and quality memes, like how lemmy is a meme-filled FOSS alternative to… waitasecond.
Hahah I left myself open to that but I mean the volume and breadth of memes in Lemmy is vastly less than on Reddit. I try to contribute what I can where possible but it’s miles away at the moment.
E.g. I can get metal memes, formula 1 memes, dank memes etc in quite high volumes there.
Imgur?
Not been on there for a couple of years, will give it another go, thanks!
yeah im about to hop off tiktok lol. every user that types a response is just dumber than the last. doesn’t matter the video topic. Some 30 year experienced chef cooking? sorry, Fatweeny69 knows more than that guy. car driving down the road? sorry. smoldickmas will type 4 paragraphs how something was wrong while driving. it’s getting so old lmao, and impossible to converse at all.
I stopped using it when it was briefly ‘banned’ then ‘saved by Trump™️’ and while I do think the platform has (had?) more merit than people give it, it only took a few days for my brain to reset, and now though I have picked it back up here and there, I always get quickly overwhelmed and put it back down. It’s nice that Loops and I guess Bluesky are trying to fill that gap, but I think it’s probably best they don’t succeed in copying the Tiktok algorithm. Though I learned and laughed a lot on the app, it was at the cost of having to sort any real information from multitudes of misinformation and a crap ton of my time wasted, and it left my dopamine receptors completely unable to motivate me to do anything else but watch short videos for a quick hit. I feel much better sticking to platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon that I enjoy but I could give or take. And like you said, the discourse is just abysmal.
It’s not a story that ByteDance would tell you.
The homies are all on RedNote 小红书.
When they fled to XHS:
No, it’s fine, i just… i didnt think it would be chinese.
I’d rather tiktok links than shitbook links. Most of my friends still suck the zuck nuts and refuse to leave, and share links instead of screen caps like a civilized person.
