Jote 🏳️‍🌈 :verified_gay:

@mrundkvist Well to be fair, I read a lot of shit, and read really fast. But there is a lot of situations where I prefer to listen to stuff, while doing other stuff. (I'm millennial). And sometimes I listen to videos with a dude talking about an article or a podcast about it (or several) to get different perspectives on the topic etc.

Like 12 Aug 2024 at 5:03 | Wall-to-wall | Open on social.plux.wtf

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Martin Rundkvist

@ailnoth I listen to lots of #podcasts. I use YouTube for two purposes only: to explain #boardgames rules and the Double Windsor Tie Knot. TikTok is for children.

12 Aug 2024 at 5:10 | Open on archaeo.social

Jote 🏳️‍🌈 :verified_gay:

@mrundkvist I mean if you are on kids tiktok then yes it is for children, in my carefully curated feed we have discussion about political, HBTQIA+ issues, kink things, archeology, space and science.

12 Aug 2024 at 5:24 | Open on social.plux.wtf

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@ailnoth

Debate over an article etc, all you said makes perfect sense. I think the guy is being frustrated about people who provide TikTok videos because it’s also the only source they used, inheriting all the video’s unavoidable simplifications.

There’s another aspect to it - when given a link to an article, it takes me maybe 30 seconds to scan and initially assess its quality (scientific vs popular, sources, references, consistency). When given a 15-60 min long video on YT you are forced to sample it sequentially to see what they’re talking about, and in most cases it’s waste of time.

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12 Aug 2024 at 9:48 | Open on agora.echelon.pl