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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
I was fine with memes over the past few years ... sure they are a quick dopamine hit that make you laugh or think
But now when my friends send me tiktok videos ... especially when someone has been watching these video streams for hours or days ... they start sending out the most random, inane, mindless content ... it's the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.
it's the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.
I think that's kind of the point. There was an article a while back that said the CCP/Bytedance intentionally serve up braindead content to everywhere outside China, while promoting educational and uplifting content at home.
I have one 50 year old friend with very little tech know how and his kids set him up with a good smartphone. I saw his family about a year ago and his kids noted that their dad often sits up until about 2 or 3 in the morning at the kitchen table just scrolling through tiktok videos. He sent them to me about once a day until I had to block him and tell him directly to stop sending me this stuff. He's since become 'aware' of his addiction and stops sending out videos as often as he did before. He still scrolls through thousands and thousands of videos a day.
It would all be funny if it wasn't so frightening at the same time.
No kidding. I just find it ironic that the generation that kept saying "TV will rot your brain" is now completely consumed by social media.
I've had no trouble curating my feed to mostly professionals, psychologists and pet behaviorists. Occasional cute animal videos
This post actually made me look for a solution and I found one!
Solution to opening tiktoks without using tiktok app or site, not how to stop ur friends sending u garbage.
It made me think... mpv player can play basically any link you throw at it (thanks to yt-dlp), and we also have mpv on Android, so why can't we do it there as well. And sure enough, I found this https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android/pull/58, someone baked yt-dlp in mpv for Android, making it possible to open link in mpv (share >> play in mpv)
It works for instagram and all other shit.
I have just moved to mpv from mx player due to this comment. Thanks!
Well that's pretty cool
I just shared this with my wife, since she has started sharing TikTok lately.
She sent this as a reply:
It's too late for me. Save yourselves!
PSA: If it's links on Discord, you can prefix the link with vx to make it natively embed so you don't have to click through (e.g. vxtiktok.com). This also works with twitter links (vxtwitter.com). People out there hosting these domains doing the lord's work
For Instagram you can usually do ddinstagram but it’s a bit inconsistent. I found it helps to remove the id at the end of the link.
This but it's instagram
It's both. So annoying when the first bit is muted and you can't replay.
I fucking abhor TikTok. Anybody who installs that app is a danger to themselves and a traitor to mankind. Disgusting fucking thing, it pisses me off.
The thing about it that irks me the most is that it's not even for any valuable means. It's just a slightly different FaceBook or YouTube Shorts platform! You're selling us all out for fucking video clips?!
My thoughts exactly.
I just ignore them because the videos are a mess of graphics and popups outside the app. It has literally made some videos unwatchable for me as they kept getting interrupted and breaking.
It's the worst mobile website I've ever seen, which is impressive considering Facebook and Reddit have been intentionally breaking their mobile websites for years now.
I just don't respond but she's not getting the hint.
As always I like promoting open source frontends for these pages. For tiktok I use proxytok. For changing any tiktok link to one of these instances use the libredirect extension for firefox, it also works in mobile
Do memes stop being memes when they're on tiktok?
Once they hit TikTok, they're purely Chinese spyware.
Facebook is just American spyware. The Chinese gov can't exactly send the feds to my house. You better bet the US gov can though!
And that's different than American spyware in several important ways, such as...
Such as...
Well shit.
Suddenly glad all of my friends are old people like me.
old people like me
The person who sends me far more TikTok videos than anyone else is my boomer dad.
This is why I wrote a Telegram bot that uses yt-dlp to convert videos and send them directly to people. My friend group all use different socials, Facebook, tiktok, Twitter, Lemmy, etc., and the bot will take the link, download the video, then send it back to the person, and then they can forward it to whatever chats they want.
It's been pretty fucking handy. That is, if your friends use Telegram.
Ugh… I can feel this in my bones.
Why don't they just actually send the video file?
Those apps purposely don't make it trivial to download the files do they? You probably could but someone who swipes Tiktok all day can not.
Lots of tiktoks can be downloaded easily, but still, they can be large, why send those around when you can just send a link
I'll usually tell him that the sound isn't working when I open it in the browser and I'm not downloading the app. But he keeps... on... trying...
Facebook videos for me
Share -> Save Video
