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[–] boem 128 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Meanwhile YouTube tries to copy TikTok by pushing Shorts.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hasn't Telegram always been a Russian asset?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Matrix is the way to go

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Threema is the way to go🇨🇭

[–] laxe 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] hushable 3 points 1 month 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.

[–] pdxfed 0 points 1 month ago

Google would never have too many products and lose focus.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

yeah fuck that shit, hidden

[–] teft 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Maybe i should start a medium form video hosting site…

[–] RGB3x3 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No less than 10 minutes, but no more than 45 minutes.

That actually might be amazing.

[–] teft 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] bbuez 5 points 1 month ago

And we'll put a series of ads to round it up to 1 hour, brilliant!

[–] ArtVandelay 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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

You could call it Goldilokk

[–] teft 1 points 1 month ago

That's marketing gold right there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month 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 6 points 1 month ago

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