The creation of the feature is what made me disable shorts. If I wanted vine then I’d go back to 2013.
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state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
The constant barrage of Joe Rogan clips of idiots claming it was impossible to move these huge stones over those distances with the tech at the time was what drove me to disable YouTube shorts.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Hey take that back. Vine and 2013 were marvellous times
li10@feddit.uk 6 months ago
You can disable shorts??
I need to do that. I get stuck in a loop of watching them, and 90% of them just piss me off anyway.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 months ago
Honestly, the first and arguably most important step is recognizing how much of online content is specifically designed to get a reaction out of you, primarily in the form pissing you off.
paradiso@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yep, might explain some of the irritability of people online.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 months ago
What’s funny (I guess funny lol) is ever since I got my current job about 2.5 years ago, I no longer need to use social media. I am much, much happier without it. But I still get into little fights on forums and I really wish I didn’t. Every now and then I resolve to be less hostile, and things really do improve, but somehow I always get dragged back into old habits. But I’m a little hesitant to completely abandon them because honestly, they are often my only window into events/what is going on/my hobbies. Idk what the answer is.
NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org 6 months ago
I honestly I’m surprised how much of a problem this is for people. All I’ve done is made sure to hit the “not interested” type buttons on YouTube and tiktok whenever they pop up, and I’ve run into next to nothing after like 3 times of doing that. Sometimes I’ll watch something the algorithm thinks is adjacent to ragebait or alt-right bullshit so it’ll try to feed it to me, and after not-interested’ing the video it goes back to feeding me the stuff I actually want…
Do people just not use those features or is my experience with the algorithms really that different?
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 6 months ago
So you’re actually thinking of it a little more narrowly, which is understandable. What I mean by “content designed to piss you off” is VERY broad.
Conservatives like Fox News, but it makes them pissed off, right? Social media can be exactly the same way.
dadGPT@lemmy.world 6 months ago
i turned off watch history. support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725.
now i dont get any recommendations from youtube and only watch what i am interested in.
NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
There’s probably a way to do it in browser with ublock origin or another extension.
On android, ReVanced.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I use ReVanced on my phone and it has an option to hide shorts permanently. In the browser I use an extension for that, there are multiple ones.