It's better in the sense that you're not demolishing your attention span with low quality ~30 second videos that usually aren't even funny or entertaining. It requires some level of cognition to read Quora comments, it requires none to sit and watch Tiktok for hours.
Sure, that's one part of tiktok, but its like saying all facebook is bad. With sites like HN or Reddit, I don't see its benefits. If you think you need zero cognition to watch videos, you are watching the wrong kind.
