How is it on TikTok? I'm not an avid user and never got hooked. My impression is that it's just dumb dance videos.
My wife and I downloaded Tik Tok at the same time, were shown the same videos in the beginning. Now, I basically see only Call of Duty: Warzone clips along with a few prank videos. My wife (far more political than I) sees a lot of videos of the protests, BLM activists, and other stuff.
Tik Tok does not try to force you to watch videos that you're not going to watch. It's crazy good (and scary).
Therefore, just sprinkle across various videos at first (perhaps most popular videos on the site). Show more of the videos that are watched longer, show less of videos that are watched for a shorter duration. Sprinkle in other analytics you collect (iphone user? says something about wealth and status - what videos do they like? android user? skews younger, poorer, what videos do they like? location data: show protest videos of big cities around you), and you end up with the "beautiful" soup that is Tik Tok.
After a certain amount of time I find most algorithm driven feeds stop being able to deliver an interesting experience, and I stop using them.
I wonder how your feed will evolve once Warzone isn't the top dog anymore, maybe it considers cohorts and enough people in your cohort will actively search for the next popular game that it will spill into your feed?
TikTok is really the next generation of social media. The way the algorithm adapts to the user is unlike anything out there plus the integrated videographic tools are incredible. Plus it is cheerful and playful, and not full of conflict or self promotion.
However the only thing we can focus on is that it is Chinese.
you'd be wrong. it's a very important platform. besides dance videos there are also hilarious and cute dog videos.