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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Personally, I never saw the appeal of TikTok anyway.

Then again I also was never interested in Twitter.

I guess my attention span isn't short enough for that type of sites.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (7 children)

TikTok has tons of issues but this bugs me so much. There are many examples of people sharing their creativity, their skill, their knowledge, their passion to the world on tiktok and it's so good at exposing you to it if you are interested in seeing all kinds of people expressing themselves.

Since when does the value of content correlate directly with the amount of time it consumes?

is brevity no longer the soul of wit??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If they want to share all of that, what hinders them to start an actual blog?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I actually help run a blog, so I know first hand how many barriers there are between a blogger and their audience and it's getting worse all the time. These days even if you do make good content that people are looking for, the search engines summarize your content or rank higher content which has scraped your content and summarized it.

that's even if you have the skills to set up a blog and the resources to fund it. Not everyone has that and if they don't, does that mean their content shouldn't be seen?

trust me, I wish the Internet was different but with things like TikTok, you just have to focus on making your content and it takes care of bringing it to the people. With a blog, you really need to seek people out and a lot of people are turned off by self-promotion.

And yeah, I know there's an argument that people shouldn't need other's validation or attention for their art but also as a creative person it is demoralizing to make stuff that no one ever sees.

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