As someone who never used tiktok and would like to avoid its brainrot, is there a way to make rednote a bit less like what I imagine tiktok to be? Every topic you mentioned speaks to me, but my attention span is already getting ruined and I don’t want to put oil on the fire.
Its inherently better. The algorithm isn’t so virality focused, this is what I have heard anyway and it feels true. The content isn’t affected by the “attention economy” that plagues western social media. The app itself also just has better features than tiktok.
I can’t say what it was like before and how many Americans will stick around, but they just added am auto translate feature so its much easier to interact and comment and not need to mess with copy and pasting to another translation app.
If you aren’t afraid of the big terrible scary CCP undermining national security I would recommend checking it out. I also think you don’t need an account to browse it on desktop
Its just my personal experience but I find myself scrolling slower and spending more time on longer form videos. At the very least it is refreshing for my ADHD brain to not be assaulted by 50% ads and 40% pointless memes that tiktok has
Something I wanna add: Rednote’s “home” page is not an infinite scroll like on TT, but a list of videos and image posts based on your algorithm, which makes me scroll it less mindlessly because I’m kinda choosing which videos to watch instead of just being served them.
I never used tiktok much either, but I’ve been really enjoying rednote so far. As for attention span worries, it might be hit or miss for you, depending on what worries you. Much like tiktok, rednote is also mostly scrolling through lots of short videos, so that part is the same. But I’ve found the algorithm to be surprisingly good at giving you what you want. My feed is mainly lots of cooking videos, cat/dog videos, cute little cartoon frogs, badass communist imagery, outdoor/travel stuff, etc. I find it much more wholesome and less brainrotty/doomscrolly than tiktok. Every time I went on tiktok I felt like it only showed me people sitting in their car ranting and clips of right wing youtube assholes. I’ve seen almost none of that garbage on rednote.
As someone who never used tiktok and would like to avoid its brainrot, is there a way to make rednote a bit less like what I imagine tiktok to be? Every topic you mentioned speaks to me, but my attention span is already getting ruined and I don’t want to put oil on the fire.
Its inherently better. The algorithm isn’t so virality focused, this is what I have heard anyway and it feels true. The content isn’t affected by the “attention economy” that plagues western social media. The app itself also just has better features than tiktok.
I can’t say what it was like before and how many Americans will stick around, but they just added am auto translate feature so its much easier to interact and comment and not need to mess with copy and pasting to another translation app.
If you aren’t afraid of the big terrible scary CCP undermining national security I would recommend checking it out. I also think you don’t need an account to browse it on desktop
Its just my personal experience but I find myself scrolling slower and spending more time on longer form videos. At the very least it is refreshing for my ADHD brain to not be assaulted by 50% ads and 40% pointless memes that tiktok has
Something I wanna add: Rednote’s “home” page is not an infinite scroll like on TT, but a list of videos and image posts based on your algorithm, which makes me scroll it less mindlessly because I’m kinda choosing which videos to watch instead of just being served them.
I never used tiktok much either, but I’ve been really enjoying rednote so far. As for attention span worries, it might be hit or miss for you, depending on what worries you. Much like tiktok, rednote is also mostly scrolling through lots of short videos, so that part is the same. But I’ve found the algorithm to be surprisingly good at giving you what you want. My feed is mainly lots of cooking videos, cat/dog videos, cute little cartoon frogs, badass communist imagery, outdoor/travel stuff, etc. I find it much more wholesome and less brainrotty/doomscrolly than tiktok. Every time I went on tiktok I felt like it only showed me people sitting in their car ranting and clips of right wing youtube assholes. I’ve seen almost none of that garbage on rednote.