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Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 46 points 3 years ago (5 children)

not only is the shorts UI shitty but the shorts themselves are often shitty imo, or at least the "scroll through shorts one at a time" linear format means you see a lot more videos you wouldn't click on intentionally.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    "No YouTube I do not want to watch Jordon Fucking Peterson. I will NEVER want that. Fuck all the way off."

    I stopped watching shorts because of the unwanted boosts of fascist content.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Silver lining: It gave me the opportunity to "dislike" Jordan Peterson, which was not an opportunity I previously had.

    I mean, I guess I always HAD the option, but there's something to be said about having somebody serve it up on a platter like that.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I hate that I get such random shit in my feed when I really only look at art videos - like my scrolling should be nothing but people drawing but random shit like slime videos or some ass hat and his kid.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah YouTube really likes to inject videos you wouldn't normally watch into your algorithm. It's pretty annoying. I would never seek out religious videos, and never have on YouTube, yet they keep making their way into my feed. Even voting them down doesn't seem to change the frequency.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    The interface isn't consistent between videos and shorts.

    You can rewind and fast forward videos on phones by double tapping the left or right hand side of the video, but doing that on shorts just likes it.

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