I want a space that’s made just for posts from leftist tiktoks, or videos that fit the rough format and time length of these.

I might be willing to mod it and throw a video at it once a day or so. It’s not like this content will literally ever dry up.

Mainly I want to find more things to follow that might not necessarily be recommended to me by the algo but might be recommend to someone else by their algo and I think that necessarily needs a space that’s NOT tiktok to find that in.

Also tiktok comments kinda suck and directing more hexbears into them might be good.

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    Also tiktok comments kinda suck and directing more hexbears into them might be good.

    You’re not kidding, half the comments on any recent video about Madeline Pendleton being 100% right about DNC astroturfing on TikTok is “But they deny the lived experience of Yeonmi Park when they say that the average Westerner’s beliefs about the DPRK are 90% based on CIA backed south Korean tabloids.”

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      There’s nothing wrong with doing that but a dedicated space prompts people for specific content types and is more likely to actually get people posting them simply by existing.

      Consider for example that there’s nothing stopping people posting the content that used to belong in Dunk_Tank into ChapoTrapHouse or whatever. But people don’t want to do that. They want a dedicated space for it. Existence of dedicated spaces simply encourages much more of the content to exist.

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    my tiktok feed is 50% people explaining theory and it’s weird coming from a heavily capitalist platform.

    how did you manage to evade the algorithms?

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      I haven’t evaded. I just know that there’s more out there and that each person gets a slightly different algo so there’s stuff we’re all collectively missing out on.

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        I haven’t evaded…

        it’s social media so you’re under no obligation to respond; but thank you for doing so nonetheless.

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          I don’t think I fully understand what’s being said here, but thanks? The prior comment mentioned the evasion. I respond to almost everything unless I have very little to say, it’s all a chat room the point is kinda to chat. The soapboxing reddit nerd shit where people reply to you but they’re not really speaking to you but rather the audience of readers is what bothers me about that site’s culture the most so I constantly try not to be that.

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              Daft Punk probably. But that’s not what I’ve been listening to the most recently, I’m not sure if I should risk posting about that though as the volcel police will judge me.

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                The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

                نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

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                Ayy, interesting. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to any Daft Punk.

                Do not fear the volcel police, they’re just for looks

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                  My favourites are Voyager and Something About Us

                  I fear being judged because like… I have a thing for techno/bass/edm background music that is also extremely horny in terms of lyrics or rhythm (yes a rhythm can be horny all by itself) and I will definitely be judged for some of it lol

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                  The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.

                  نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.

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