> I think a lot of people on here never spent much time on TikTok and it shows.
I agree whole heartedly, along with a horrendous dearth of empathy but unfortunately I find very common in Hacker News comments. Regardless of whether or not you feel that 170 million Americans all fell for Chinese propaganda, there is still a profound sense of loss.
For me personally, I've been writing and performing music on TikTok for about 3 years now and frequently found community and collaboration the likes of which I've not even come close to seeing anywhere else except maybe YouTube 10 or 15 years ago. Community they gave me the confidence to release music for the first time and folks who would actually listen to it.
I had a rather small following, but orders of magnitude of more than anywhere else IRL or on the internet
One of the coolest things for me was seeing a musician start out, and then several months later seeing that they'd blown up. And this happened often! There are a lot of musicians (artists too, etc) who never would have surfaced.
People say "you can just post on xyz" and yet none of those places surface these kinds of creators.
Many of the other sites are either pay-to-play at this point, or surface content that aligns with something they're looking to surface.
I agree whole heartedly, along with a horrendous dearth of empathy but unfortunately I find very common in Hacker News comments. Regardless of whether or not you feel that 170 million Americans all fell for Chinese propaganda, there is still a profound sense of loss.
For me personally, I've been writing and performing music on TikTok for about 3 years now and frequently found community and collaboration the likes of which I've not even come close to seeing anywhere else except maybe YouTube 10 or 15 years ago. Community they gave me the confidence to release music for the first time and folks who would actually listen to it.
I had a rather small following, but orders of magnitude of more than anywhere else IRL or on the internet