yes but the experience of occassionally seeing a curated-by-my-homies tiktok vid on my dash is so violently different from the endless stream of scrolling through algorithmic video content. i crave variety. what is my social media experience without walls of text interrupted randomly by videos of ducks and pictures of weird vegan brownies.

I'm not going to a primarily audiovisual social media site. I'm not. Even if the Tiktok app weren't worse than the Facebook app on internet privacy and related user data security concerns, I wouldn't.

The occasional brief audiovisual content known to be relevant to the interests of someone I'm following, in among the text posts and still images and silently moving gifs, is a lovely thing.