• _sideffect@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “I’d like to take this 5 minute break and thank all my sponsors before we get into the video!”

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      5 months ago

      Shorts are so abominably bad, I feel like I fell through a portal into another dimension when i watch the absolute garbage there.

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      5 months ago

      Reminds me of how stories are everywhere now or how everyone copied clubhouse for a while. Instead of strengthening what a product is good at, these companies want their products to he everything at once and often lose focus about what their product was originally good at.

      Telegram for example becomes a fully blown social network now but message sync and notifications between different clients are spotty now - that’s what made them great for me in the beginning.

  • miss phant@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I’m a TikTok user (sorry) and love the longer educational videos, but over 10 minutes which is the current limit seems excessive in this format. I wanna be able to pause and continue these later which doesn’t fit into how TikTok works.

    IMO these should be separated into different apps, when I use YouTube I also don’t wanna be made to watch their shorts. I wouldn’t mind a YT alternative by TikTok – don’t get me wrong they’re also a horrible company but it wouldn’t harm to have competition by one of the few who could pull it off.

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    5 months ago

    What’s the point? Most people I see on Tiktok have so little attention span that everything gets skipped after the first 5 seconds.

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      5 months ago

      They make it to five seconds?

      My wife maybe watches the first 700 milliseconds before deciding if she’s going to watch a video.

      TikTok has melted her already short attention span. We’re working on cutting down on it, but she’s truly addicted to social media in general.

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    5 months ago

    Well, I’d definitely call that an improvement for those psychos who watch movies there in incontable chunks… (Yeah, this species exists).