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Unfortunately, if twitter has shown us anything, it’s social networks are ridiculously hard to destroy, even when actively self-sabotaging
Instagram is absolute garbage compared to how it used to be. It’s still massive. Once people are hooked, it’s hard to wean them off. People were livid at reddit, but only a fraction of those who spoke up are here
The average user doesn’t even know anything happened.
API? That’s like being gay or trans right?
They’re hard to destroy until something (people view as) better shows up. My buddy Tom from MySpace got out while the getting was good.
Digg on the other hand did not see it coming.
God I miss pre-Digg Reddit.
You’re back there now! Lemmy now is pretty much like Reddit pre-2008.
They were falling off as of V3, V4 deffo killed them off though.
Nowadays they’re (kinda) back as a daily dose website.
Dude cashed out right at the peak, then took his money and travels the world with it. Tom never has to work another day in his life.
More than anything, it’s that people resist change. They’ll stick to what they are doing until sometime after it becomes very clear that they shouldn’t any longer.
It’s so funny one wanting to become the other, yt went to shit after shorts and tiktok is doing the same.
the same but opposite. YT pushes shorts to compete with Tiktok. Tiktok pushes longform content to compete with YT
Why can’t they put shorts somewhere else? I do watch them but I don’t always want them, they clog up results and recommendations so bad
I hate that on the YouTube mobile app the shorts take up the entirety of your screen when you first open it. Like they really want you to watch shorts over their regular video content. And YouTube shorts still to this day don’t even work. If you open YouTube and watch 50 shorts a day, once a day for a week, after the first day you’ll see like one new short a day. There’s no algorithm, it just shows you the same exact shorts in almost the same exact order over and over again.
They really fucked up the user experience for the older user base. Kids love those shorts though.
I mean I’m not even anti-shorts. Like I like shorts and Reels and such just fine but the YouTube shorts are literally just broken on top of being kinda shitty to begin with.
I keep getting shorts (not anymore i fixed that) when i searched for something and they often feature stuff not related to my search. Like me searching for tubeless bike tire instruction video and the shorts in between are a alien looking dark purple baby and a short where some muslim looking guys are waving a scimitar at a goats neck…like what in the actual fuck does that even do on youtube?
Shorts need to be ended imo, so i blocked them.
Stop, I can only get so erect!
“horizontal content”
I mean… C’mon. WHAT RATIO?!
We should start our own video platform, with no rules other than hate speech prohibition and dark web-esque content removal. Never sell to Google. Never sell to Tencent. Never IPO. Just maintain the servers and hire enough technicians to maintain a content scanning algorithm. Keep it small and provide a cleaner experience by not fucking around with adblock users. Just have a platform that utilizes ads, don’t punish adblockers, and with those metrics in hand, approach advertisers and charge less than youtube charges.
Are you going to allow copyrighted content? You’ll get downranked in searches, and probably wrecked by the DMCA.
Advertising also isn’t as lucrative as it seems. YouTube was a money pit for years - that’s probably tied to the decision to push Premium so heavily. Videos are big.
Funny.
