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Comment by torben-friis | Hacker News Reader

Is it? I use tiktok and the app routinely tries to throw content outside my bubble at the wall to see what sticks, even in languages I don’t speak.

It is currently showing a lot of Argentinian videos on my feed even though I’m European.

I’m sure that the Chinese version is different and censored, but other than that my experience is that it’s tailored to your personal engagement patterns much more than to the groups you belong to.

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It is. Leaving China aside. Once tiktok 'segments' you to a region, the experience is totally different and unchangeable even if you move around.

Ewwww. Yet another reason to dislike TikTok.

I’m my experience, if you turn on a VPN with a different region, you’ll start getting that type of content.

funny thing is when you have a different OS language than your location, then you basically get both. But it's quite difficult to become entrenched into another (in this case a third) region/language.

I think they're referring to this article: https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...

It came up on HN a few months back

Not sure how they partition it, because you can obviously still see users you follow while you move around, but I noticed my fyp was completely different when I went back home. It could just be that IP geolocation is more important a signal than your taste profile.

It is, indeed. Nobody can honestly claim it isn't.

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