My fyp is full of bipoc LGBTQ+ people? Twitter on the other hand tries to feed me right wing news sources and disinformation all the time. There's a spectrum here and TikTok is far on the other side.

Also to be frank the algorithm is by far the best out of any company with a "for you" algorithm. It blows pretty much anything else out of the water entirely.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Go watch a few truck or bbq tik toks and watch it backslide. Anything that is vaguely a “manly hobby.” You’ll be surprised how quickly Ben Shapiro winds up in front of you.

[–] whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I watch more tiktok than I'm proud of, and YouTube is actually way worse for this. Youtube I've actually started using some private browsing for things that I think might turn to Joe Rogan or whatever because on that platform you're like 7 videos from "i'd like to check out some camping videos" to "here's how to protect yourself from the woke mob in the apocalypse which will happen next Tuesday courtesy of Ben Shapiro."

The thing that worries me about tiktok is they're too good at this. It would honestly be extremely easy for them to tip the scales.

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the internet media is famously skewed right, its a pure fact.

[–] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Totally. It’s just an invisible off ramp every few clicks

[–] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I have a friend who actively uses youtube for only audio books on literal marxism and they still give him ads for fucking prager U and shit