• miss phant@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    I’m a TikTok user (sorry) and love the longer educational videos, but over 10 minutes which is the current limit seems excessive in this format. I wanna be able to pause and continue these later which doesn’t fit into how TikTok works.

    IMO these should be separated into different apps, when I use YouTube I also don’t wanna be made to watch their shorts. I wouldn’t mind a YT alternative by TikTok – don’t get me wrong they’re also a horrible company but it wouldn’t harm to have competition by one of the few who could pull it off.

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      7 months ago

      Not to mention that it’s hard to intuitively watch longterm videos on TikTok. Once you swipe a video, it’s gone, unless you save it on favorites, and it’s not easy to get back to the video, either. At least on YouTube, it’s easier to go back to the paused video from the homepage.

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        7 months ago

        As a frequent tiktok user as of late, swiping away a video doesn’t make it go away forever. You can always go back, also there’s a view history if you’re really trying to find a video you lost. People shit on tiktok a lot but it’s made my cooking phenomenal.

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        7 months ago

        Another thing about TikTok that I don’t get is all the useless crap laid over the video. Seems extremely distracting to me.

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      7 months ago

      Reminds me of how stories are everywhere now or how everyone copied clubhouse for a while. Instead of strengthening what a product is good at, these companies want their products to he everything at once and often lose focus about what their product was originally good at.

      Telegram for example becomes a fully blown social network now but message sync and notifications between different clients are spotty now - that’s what made them great for me in the beginning.

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      7 months ago

      Shorts are so abominably bad, I feel like I fell through a portal into another dimension when i watch the absolute garbage there.

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    7 months ago

    What’s the point? Most people I see on Tiktok have so little attention span that everything gets skipped after the first 5 seconds.

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      7 months ago

      They make it to five seconds?

      My wife maybe watches the first 700 milliseconds before deciding if she’s going to watch a video.

      TikTok has melted her already short attention span. We’re working on cutting down on it, but she’s truly addicted to social media in general.

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    7 months ago

    “I’d like to take this 5 minute break and thank all my sponsors before we get into the video!”

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    7 months ago

    Well, I’d definitely call that an improvement for those psychos who watch movies there in incontable chunks… (Yeah, this species exists).