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[dragdeler]

Tiktoks the same as YT shorts, as was vine:

Short format video= less server load for more individual clicks and the possibilty to interject ads at each of those clicks.



Gotta love how YT retroactively turned clips under a certain length into shorts, much less UI, oh you wanted to see that in slowmo yeah no FUCK YOU this YT shorts ®®$®

[scriver]

I'm still not 100% sure what the hell TikTok is, as far as I can tell it's like a shitty youtube filled with narcissists.

Apparently not the Chinese version

[heydude6]

Gotta love how YT retroactively turned clips under a certain length into shorts, much less UI, oh you wanted to see that in slowmo yeah no FUCK YOU this YT shorts ®®$®

I don't think YT retroactively changed any clips into shorts. Shorts are filmed with a vertical aspect ratio and you couldn't upload those types of video to YT at all prior to shorts. Additionally, many creators still upload their tiny clips as regular videos rather than shorts (CircleToonsHD is an example) so I don't think YT is forcing short videos into becoming Shorts^TM either.

[EuchreJack]

I'm still not 100% sure what the hell TikTok is, as far as I can tell it's like a shitty youtube filled with narcissists.

Apparently not the Chinese version

Chinese version infinitly better as in correctly venerates Pandas.

[tonnot98]

I don't think YT retroactively changed any clips into shorts. Shorts are filmed with a vertical aspect ratio and you couldn't upload those types of video to YT at all prior to shorts. Additionally, many creators still upload their tiny clips as regular videos rather than shorts (CircleToonsHD is an example) so I don't think YT is forcing short videos into becoming Shorts^TM either.

It changed like one or two of my videos that were uploaded before shorts.

[heydude6]

I stand corrected then. Did the aspect ratio also change?

[King Zultan]

I find youtube shorts annoying the different format makes downloading them a pain.


Also whatever happened to Vine I haven't heard anything about that in a few years seems like.

[Egan_BW]

For youtube shorts, I always change the URL from Shorts to Watch. That plops it into the normal player.

[scriver]

Good tip. Thanks.

[Ziusudra]

Also whatever happened to Vine I haven't heard anything about that in a few years seems like.

Would you believe killed by Twitter

[King Zultan]

Also whatever happened to Vine I haven't heard anything about that in a few years seems like.

Would you believe killed by Twitter

Well that answers that, also damn twitter for killing that thing I never used.

For youtube shorts, I always change the URL from Shorts to Watch. That plops it into the normal player.

Thanks for the info.

[Max™]

Oh, that is already happening. I've moved on, and hope the US proposed ban on Government phones having TikTok is expanded to Twitter. I mean, Twitter gave us Trump, so it has to Go.

Ahem: that fucking COPS show not being shut down and all the other fucking "reality" tv garbage since then not being punished brutally is why the piece of shit who made Survivor decided to take a terrible businessman and present him as a savvy CEO as a joke which apparently nobody got is how we ended up with the orange cunt as a president.

The discovery by the british of tea in india and sugarcane/ideal climate to grow it in the americas combined with their willingness to destroy the world for it is how we ended up with the slave trade and general eurotrash willingness to slaughter natives is why the US is built on a bedrock of dead natives and horribly abused slaves and white people being garbage left us with a chunk of bitchass loser racists that are STILL pissed at them losing the civil war which enabled a party willing to appeal to exclusively them with no morals to speak of into a perfect storm of the absolute worst and least discriminating garbage people voting for the absolute worst piece of shit ever elected and bitching nonstop that he lost.

So now a rich bitchboy bought twitter to try and appeal to the smallbrained racists who hate it being used for anything but advancing their racist bullshit.

Mastodon on the other hand is great.

[ChairmanPoo]

For me twitter does a lot of things that Mastodon doesnt (so far. Odds are some parts of it will collapse. Ie: I dont expect covid scientists to hang out in twitter much longer after Musk's latest far right dogwhistle). If mastodon became a 100% clone of old twitter and I could follow all the people I do on it... then maybe. But so far I dont get that functionality so twitter it is.

For reference: with my current list I can follow EHA and ASH highlights without even trying. Not applicable in Mastodon.

[scriver]

I've been thinking for some time that I want to see a public/national attempt at a social media site. I'm not sure what I want from it in terms of the differences between different social media sites. I just feel like if social media is going to be butting into such a important aspect of people's lives as social media does today, then there is a big argument for not just leaving it to private interests.

I also think a lot about whether it would be good to have nationalised/public "town square marketplace" where people can put up their digital "market stalls" the way fur example amazon enables non-amazon private people to sell through amazon. Basically to prevent the kind of monopolisation amazon do even on independent Internet outlets where amazon's market dominance means that if you aren't selling through amazon you aren't visible to customers.

[McTraveller]

Always remember: before the internet, someone else had to think your idea had enough merit to get it published.  With the internet (and things like Twitter) "only you" need to think your idea is good enough to publish.

I think having free speech is important, but I suspect (strongly) that people have forgotten that you also need responsible speech. 

I'm all for opposing viewpoints on opinion-based topics, but almost all social media tends to devolve to irresponsible speech - people stating opinions as fact is one of the most nefarious examples because it's not as obvious as outright denigration of some demographic.  Due to decades of culture shift, most people no longer have the cognitive tools necessary to know if a statement made with unfounded certainty does indeed have merit or if they should just accept it because it was delivered with confidence.