One of those things about tiktok that strikes me as distinctively authoritarian—timestamps, provenance, etc, are all means with which users can examine power. Flip side—offering downloads, rather than bookmarks, acknowledges the service can’t guarantee content will stick about.
No time stamps or provenance trails on tiktok is some next level atemporality Wonder if it’s an inevitable evolution of social media or more media with Chinese temporal characteristics
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Yeah, turning off time cues is characteristic of two scary situations: PoW confinement/torture and casinos
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major feature-dk how broadly applicable it is, but the social stigma around"stalking"nearly any other social media account, instagram especially, is tied to the weirdness of time being attached to pieces of content fundamentally changes the process of oboarding someone as a fan
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@nathanjurgenson as usual, curious what your take on this would be - what it means about the way identity is shaped by tiktok architecture in ways it isn't elsewhere - Show replies
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I don't use it, but your description strikes me as antithetical to building structure that does anything but churn.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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