• @[email protected]
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    2620 days ago

    Do you not think some people doomscroll lemmy, only reading titles and looking at image posts?

    • foremanguy
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      1020 days ago

      Maybe but it’s not the point of it. An infinite scrollable shorts/tiktok like is meant to be doomscrolled

      • @[email protected]
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        619 days ago

        I watch YouTube shorts sometimes, the algorithm gives me mostly comedy, usually some type of shketch where one person plays all the characters. I’ve also seen quick tip or educational videos, outdoor clips. None of what I engage with is doomscroling.

        • foremanguy
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          519 days ago

          1 - Even when educational you can’t retain all the infos that these short videos give you

          2 - Log out of YouTube, and watch the default YouTube shorts feed, you would be amazed how this is a concentrate of shitty posts.

          • @[email protected]
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            519 days ago

            1 - I’m not going to YouTube shorts to be educated, but if Hank Green shows up and drops a fact on me that’ll entertain me for 30 seconds, I’m good. It’s not doomscrooling which was your original point.

            2 - Well yeah that’s a bad idea on most content websites, just because the lowest common denominator content is bad doesn’t mean it’s bad once you curate what you want to watch.

            • @[email protected]
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              118 days ago

              2 - but that’s the problem! All the new accounts, which are very often children just growing up, get bombarded with the most evil and actively damaging shit, and they don’t have the ability to curate whatever comes to them, they don’t even know that they need to do that. And if you aren’t spending hours upon hours on the platform, you don’t have time to curate the algorithm anyway, so you will be served poison

    • @[email protected]
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      619 days ago

      Sure, there are those people, but that’s not the point here. Lemmy doesn’t enforce some arbitrary short length to its posts in an attempt to force the users to engage more with the platform instead of the actual content. The same cannot be said of tiktok or twitter, for example.