If TikTok disappears, I will miss the algorithm.TikTok gives me the right amounts of all of the things I’m interested in. I don’t have the same experience elsewhere. Do you?

  • Thorny_Insight
    251·
    7 months ago

    I don’t use TikTok or Instagram and I block shorts on YouTube. The average lenght of the videos I watch is somewhere between 10 to 20 minutes.

      • Thorny_Insight
        3·
        7 months ago

        You need an addon for that. YouTube lets you block shorts for 30 days at a time.

        • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
          2·
          7 months ago

          That’s one of the weirdest features i have ever seen. I know that they just want to push that shit, but no option to just remove it is so dumb. Look at this garbage feature, maybe you love it next month

          • Thorny_Insight
            2·
            7 months ago

            YouTube Enhancer is one option but there are ones that are made just to remove shorts too.

          • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            I use a custom filters for uBlock Origin:

            www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#thumbnail[href*="/shorts"]:upward(7)

            www.youtube.com##:matches-path(/)a#endpoint[title*="Shorts"]

            Might need some adjusting depending on OS and browser (I use this for chrome on mac.)

            • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              7 months ago

              Thanks.

              I was more interested in the way the other person said.

              They said you can do it in the YT app for 30 days at a time. I can’t find it though. I’m limited as I’m on iOS.

      • qevlarr@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 months ago

        Define too long. I like videos of up to 20 minutes. That’s long to some people. Occasionally I’ll enjoy longer videos but almost always I think to myself “you could have said the same in a much shorter video”. If you’re coming up on an hour or more, you should really look at that script again. And I won’t even open the 4 hours bullshit rambling videos. Do people actually watch that or is it just on in the background?

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          If you’re coming up on an hour or more, you should really look at that script again.

          Depends what the video is about.

          If it’s a how-to demonstrating a long and complex process, then it should be as long as it needs to be.

          But if it’s a political rant, then yeah, get to the point already.

        • Squizzy@lemmy.world
          12·
          7 months ago

          Yeah the algorithm has pushed a lot of creators to 20 mind plus which can be nice for turning on while cleaning up the kitchen but sometimes I see an interesting video and Im thinking thatt if it were 5 minutes shorter I’d click but 20+ needs a lot of content to justify. Veritasium and a few others have fallen out of my rotation because there is a bit of fat on the videos these days.