Limit your Shorts scrolling to zero minutes per day.
  • ramble81@lemmy.zipEnglish
    62·
    1 day ago

    Maybe I’m using Shorts in a different way, but I’m not seeing a problem with them. I just view them through the home page and they’re in my suggested list like every other video. I consider them just another format of video to watch.

    I think the difference is I look at them like discreet units and then jump back to my homepage as opposed to doomscrolling them.

    • baines@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      that’s great but it is simple as I don’t want to

      nothing more need be discussed

      modern companies are just trash

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      For people browsing on mobile in the youtube app(the vast majority, i imagine), if you click a short it will take you into the shorts interface, which is designed to maximally draw users in to doomscrolling. On pc its a very different experience and easier to disengage since it just pops up like a normal video (usually?)

    • JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I have two main conplaints about shorts, myself, the end result of which is that I prefer to just never see them in my feed, ever.

      1. Most shorts that pop up for me are literally just clips from longer form videos I’ve already seen, or are already on my Watch Later list. And there’s SO damn many of them. Those types of shorts are purely clutter.

      2. The other type of shorts I see most often are just aping the tiktok format, characterized by being extremely shallow and low-effort, as well as having the INFURIATING tendency to be over-edited for length trimming. You know the type of editing I mean, the one where the creator apparently thinks that even pausing to BREATHE between words or thoughts is too much downtime in the video. I find it insulting that TikTok and now YouTube have normalized the idea that creators should be so overwhelmingly desperate to capture every moment of your attention. Plus, it’s pretty well understood by now that feeding your attention that heavily is wildly unhealthy for your brain.

      • BigDiction@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        This really fucks up the delivery and timing of comedy clips. I’ll admit I watch a lot of shorts and there are some specific creators who are really good at it. Shout out to miniminuteman and hydronyc.

        I quickly run into terribly cut clips that are only coherent when you watch the full video, and of course a plethora of AI slop of both clips and ads.

        I need to get off this shit.