Alcohol is superseded by superior, less bodily destructive, mind-expanding alternatives in 2022. Plus, you cannot talk someone out of being drunk - they must process it. Many young people in their thirties are drinking themselves to death. It's a tragedy, we should really kick the alcohol. To be clear, I think the other things (some on the famous "schedule") should be legalized instead.
Thanks for this clarification. I had a hunch it was a weird mix of the two. In reality I'm glad congresspeople don't have a lens into the money printing business.
I reckon nobody opposes your fine idea, simply that when a template is transformed enough to be a useful web app starting point, it's often too opinionated to be generally applicable! But maybe the next time I start a few web apps I will think about how I can keep it a clean template as long as possible -- might go somewhere cool.
I think it's just simply better at it. As users, we provide signals to these systems in the form of engagement metrics. But these systems have to interpret those metrics. If I'm highly engaged with a piece of content, the system has to figure out what characteristic of that content appealed to me. I feel like YouTube in particular uses way too coarse/siloed characteristics that results in funneling into a few characteristics. But with TikTok, I get the sense that it ends up with a much finer grain idea of what I like.
Another major source of tuning is going to be the frequency and the novelty of content injected into the stream. TikTok will throw new things at you more frequently than other platforms. Because viewing a Tok is so low investment and easy to swipe past, they can afford a few misses and still keep you in the app. This leads to a better search process for the things you care about.
