I’ll pay you $1000 to let me unsee this

What about those people? They’re mainly the aforementioned hypocrites.

You’re worried about Tiktok privacy? Good, you should be. You should ALSO be worried about privacy everywhere else you go. Where is your concerned about Lemmy’s privacy? People who think Lemmy is private are like the people who think that blockchain makes your transactions untraceable.

You’re worried about being fed empty content? Ok I guess. Where is your concern about brainrot content on Lemmy? Nobody is being outraged by !hmmm@lemmy.world or !memes@lemmy.world or !showerthoughts@lemmy.world.
And if you think all content on Tiktok (or most content presented to users) is like that, then that says more about whoever told you that than it does about Tiktok.

You seem more than happy enough to be a pig being fed by Lemmy.

You may call this whataboutism.
I call this a hard look in the mirror and a call for you to reflect on why you’re ok with it some places and not others, and if perhaps it’s related to purity, or elitism, or ageism, or racism.

No, I understood perfectly.
Capitalism causes apps to be shitty
But you don’t understand that capitalism isn’t the only reason that apps become shitty.

And out comes the big “algorithm” Boogeyman, decried by people who don’t know what an algorithm is.

You know why it’s easy to put down Lemmy? Because it does a horrifically shitty job at presenting you with new content that you’re actually interested in. That it. That’s the entire story. You’re less addicted because it’s less enjoyable. That is literally the entire thing.

Lemmy has all the parts needed for the same experience: an infinitely scrolling list of bite sized content. The only difference is that there is way less content here, and there is no discovery (meaning it keeps you in your own self-defined echo chamber).
Lemmy is a reddit clone, and if you’re gonna tell me that people aren’t addicted to reddit at similarly “dangerous” rates then I’ma full on call you a liar with my entire full chest.

See, this is the purity culture, and it’s always so selectively applied.

Things can have both good and bad aspects. Lots of good things can be bad when used too much.
Lemmy is much the same way. You say it was specifically designed to be an addiction engine, but all that involves is showing you things you like. Lemmy is the same, just that the algorithm is so simple that it can’t show you any discovery or new things.
You can find similar arguments about almost every part of the internet.

Are there problems with Tiktok? Of course. There are also amazing parts of Tiktok. Just like Lemmy. Just like Mastodon. Just like pixelfed.

The man of culture part was.

Generally I think the dislike of Tiktok has to do with purity culture more than anything else. I typically find people who hate on Tiktok to be misinformed, willfully ignorant, massively hypocritical, or a combination thereof

Unlikely

I’m a man of culture, i see Tiktok, I open Tiktok 😌

I don’t understand what those tiktoks have to do with the text. None of those tiktoks have clickbait titles or tags or anything. They’re just silly fun videos.

I know art is subjective, but like… 26 episodes devoted to watching an annoying little shit face become even more annoying and shittier?

I want to like the show so bad, but shinji is just so unpleasant to watch.

Generally I think there is value in engaging with media that makes you experience negative and uncomfortable emotions, but I think the exception to that is anger. If the predominant emotions is anger, then probably not a tremendous amount of value. Most other emotions evoked by media are either enjoyable themselves or produce enjoyable after effects (like the thrill of horror, or the catharsis of tragedy); but not anger.

All you have to do is move to a town with no jobs, and pay the lower rent with thoughts and prayers

And that’s honestly a real shame when you think about what that tells us about how our society values education.

But nobody does think about it, because thinking about it doesn’t put bread on the table.

God I don’t understand why people love this anime.

I know it’s a deconstruction of the super robot. I know that shinji has a plausibly realistic reaction to his situation, especially as an unwilling Eva pilot. That doesn’t make me wanna watch the psychological unravelling of a child until he becomes completely insufferable and wanks it over his comatose friend. Why does anyone wanna watch that, no matter how powerful?

No, he is an insufferable whiney little shitfart. 100% incel energy.

It’s probably the most accurate description I’ve ever heard of shinji

It honestly took me a few seconds to get.
I’m ashamed it took me that long
I’m even more ashamed I got it at all

Blame autocorrect 😭

Ikr

Go in there and take turns to play snes or genesis for like an hour while mom went shopping lol

I don’t get it. What’s wrong with a Java Industrial Standard Library Object Relational Database?

I’ve gotta get back to preparing my coffin, I don’t have time for this

After a history of ethically questionable jobs, I thought I had escaped it into something almost benign where we were only wasting the money of other companies.
Recently we started going balls deep into making AI products, and I feel very uncomfortable with it