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TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

TikTok is no more a social media platform than YouTube is. I'm puzzled why some people call it that and my only guess is that they've never used it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"Social media" just means a public place where the plebs can upload content and interact with other plebs via the internet without knowing a lick of html, Internet culture, or anything technical really. If they are so lucky, some might even be graced by the attention of a minor internet celebrity, the modern day patricians.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I agree, it all went downhill when we stopped having liturgy exclusively in Ecclesiastical Latin. Plebs can now use internet without knowing HTML too. How will they know their place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

When Internet communities were still a relatively niche thing and I (preteen to early teen) was already on the Internet, I had great dreams that in the future everyone would be on it and this would cause society to be awesome.

Everyone is now on the Internet. This has not made society awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You mean the websites where people can be social around media ... is not a social media?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People seem to be selectively stretching definition of social media but are rather inconsistent in applying this label. Yeah, plenty of platforms and websites can be described as social media but we generally go with calling them by primary function. YouTube and TikTok are video platforms first. Reasons why Twitter and TikTok are going downhill are vastly different, reasons for their resilience or lack thereof will be very different too.