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Breadtube if it didn't suck.

Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.

There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.

A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.

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[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Tried to use Tiktok a while back, had to stop after a week because once the algorithm "realized" I was a man it would not stop sending me Joe Rogan clips, thirst traps of young women, and other incredibly misogynist (and racist, and any other sort of reactionary) content. It was pretty fucking heinous. Lasering that into young minds that can't defend themselves is a deeply upsetting crime against humanity.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (2 children)

YouTube shorts is the same, no matter how many times you try to filter it out, you get that kind of shit, or daily wire propaganda. It's incessant

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I never got that with TikTok, but youtube shorts is almost always trying to feed me some right wing bullshit. My TikTok on the other hand is almost all trans women and stuff like makeup tutorials (and some cute pups), and it was like this was long before I realized I was trans.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tbh I don't use tiktok much, just to open links people send.

[–] pooh@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

That might be why some people are having issues with TikTok. You do have to train it a bit, but once you like a few videos it will start to shift. I think that’s part of the reason why TikTok got so popular in the first place, since it really does get good at providing what you want to see the more you use it.

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yes it so much worse. Even if it's not all that shit, it won't stop feeding me annoying John Green videos no matter how many times I tell it to stop lol

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 1 points 4 months ago
[–] duderium@hexbear.net 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

My tiktok feed is almost nothing but Palestinians begging for their lives.

[–] ihaveibs@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

I wasn't involved in leftist politics at the time but even still I kept blocking/telling TikTok to stop sending me these videos and it would just never stop