The place is opening up, was just running late, all good :)

That's why I made the effort to come back to it after it didn't click for me the first time haha, so I get it!

Ya it didn't click for me at first, I don't remember exactly how it played out, but eventually I sat with it for a while and got sucked in.

Ya sometimes it gets a little "stuck" for me, so I'll intentionally watch videos for longer that I might have skipped, or skip stuff I might have wanted to watch, until Tiktok gets the hint and starts exploring again.

Maybe bc it's still oriented along that dimension, like how bag of words models struggle to differentiate a thing and it's negation. Maybe try to clean out your likes and follows and start fresh? Or give up on it lol. I like it, but if it's not working for you then you're probably fine without it.

I stopped because it had become too habitual and I wanted to change my baseline habits, but I was never running out of interesting things 🤷

Ya I dunno I have literally never gotten a Maga thing in my feed that I can remember lol. Maybe it's because you've got mainstream media stuff? I mostly follow local or independent creators. A lot of food stuff, science, philosophy, comedy, art, animation...

Admittedly I've been taking the last couple months or so off of Tiktok, but my experience has been mostly positive. Liking videos, duration viewed, liking hashtags, music, and following channels. Aggressively skipping even videos you like if you think you're getting overserved on certain content...