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Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results by ImprovedSilence on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:41PM (#31173530)
Probably. What drove me away more than ads is that I can’t find any good content that is less than 20min long. The “algorithm” feeds me shit that, yes I’m interested in, but is longer than a sitcom! (and drove creators to optimize for longer format,I know) I realize this is by design and blah blah engagement blah blah ad revenue etc. but I yearn for the days of good interesting shit where I could queue up 10 vids and it doesn’t take me a month to burn through it all…. I want an option to tell suggestions to keep it between 3-8min long content!!!
Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results by newsclues on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:54PM (#31173656)
As a person I have silos of interests and ideal content desires.

Sometimes I want to watch long podcasts about war and other times I want 30 second puppy videos and I don’t understand why I can’t have algorithms for both silos without separate accounts.

Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results by tempnow987 on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:28PM (#31173967)
For a while it was comical because there was some 10 minute magic threshold, and so many videos danced around and around to get to that 10 min mark. I agree through, I HATE it, I've started always trying to find written articles and reviews to shortcut this misery.

TikTok is capitalizing on this too - going to be much easier to digest a ton of tiktok then a ton of long meandering youtube videos.

Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results by mabbo on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:24PM (#31173926)
This is why I love LockPickingLawyer. Generally never more than 3 minutes long. Yet by confining himself to such short videos, he has to maximize the time used.
Re:Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2022 Results by tmaly on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @05:53PM (#31173645)
As a creator it takes a ton of time to do editing on something 15 min vs 2 min. I would much rather created a series of 2 min videos.