• @Pechente@feddit.de
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      387 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.

      • sab
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        267 months ago

        Also Telegram is growing shadier day by day. Signal is the way to go.

      • @laxe@lemmy.world
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        37 months ago

        They do this because they need to create “infinite” growth to justify their overvalued stock price

      • @hushable@lemmy.world
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        37 months ago

        message editing is an odd one, several times I’ve edited a message and not seen the change reflected on my other devices for hours at the time. Makes me wonder if my recipient get the updated message with a massive delay as well.

    • DarkThoughts
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      I’m so glad that Enhancer for YT got updated again. No more Shorts spam for me.

    • teft
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      127 months ago

      Maybe i should start a medium form video hosting site…

        • teft
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          227 months ago

          22 minute videos…we’ve just reinvented broadcast television.

      • @ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        If YouTube was too long and TikTok was too short, yours could be just right.

        You could call it Goldilokk

      • Captain Aggravated
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        17 months ago

        Remember OLD Youtube? With a 10 minute upload limit? Which is why the original Red Letter Media Mr. Plinkett review of The Phantom Menace, the work that basically invented the modern long-form video essay, was broken into 9 parts?

    • @JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world
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      57 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.

  • miss phant
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    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.

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    137 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.

    • @Zron@lemmy.world
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      117 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.

  • kratoz29
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    37 months ago

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