I mean, the WWW is decentralized by default, and you're right - the more people contibute (to anything) the higher the likelihood that there would be "too many leaders in the room", or too many egos and high-minded opinions thrown about. All knowing they are right, even if that becomes a unified chorus of wrong.

But with the TikTok example you made - I'd say digging through what a service like that is, in order to find "a" thing that is "good" about it would be the difficult endeavor. Using it (or any social media) to platform a societal issue is counterintuitive to even *wanting* to improve society - like injecting heroin in order to get close to a heroin addict to tell them how unhealthy heroin is!

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~jack wrote (thread):

"…like injecting heroin in order to get close to a heroin addict to tell them how unhealthy heroin is!"

Insightful and true, indeed!

~commence2897 wrote:

i suppose that comes down to perceptions of the platform as a whole. my first thought, whenever i think of Tiktok, is something along the vein of "bad" because i've heard X or Y; seen J and K about why i shouldn't like/use/trust/install Tiktok - the majority of which have been valid arguments and informative.

i don't agree with you when it comes to raising awareness about a given issue, though. just because a medium has issues with it, doesn't mean that it's inherently evil. the TV, for instance, would "make folks' eyes go square" after watching cartoons for too long. now i can watch the news every morning if i want to. there's definitely pros and cons to talking about important stuff through a medium like Tiktok, but the technology that the majority of people use changes over time, and i think you'd be hard pushed to find a platform that caters for everything perfectly. from my (albeit limited) experience: it's vital, when wanting to improve society, to share information about /why/ society needs to be improved in a given domain, and /how/ it can be.

interesting to see your thought process, though!