Post by @victorz@lemmy.world

2026-01-04 14:43 UTC

> the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video. Have to disagree with the notion that this is a fact. I watch informative and interesting shorts all the time. Plenty out there if you have the right subscriptions and are careful with how you use the service. E.g. you must never _scroll_ shorts. Watch the ones you want to see, then back out, so you never see anything that pollutes your account history. If you see something you don't like, put a negative vote on it, maybe even click "don't see this account again" or whatever it's called. And vice versa, upvote and subscribe to stuff you like. It requires some effort but for me it's worth the interesting content.

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@Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2026-01-04 21:19

Alphabet is known to mess around with the algorithms so you'll always get disgusting Nazi shit in your suggestions sooner or later. Also, a lot of people can't back out of doom-scrolling, because of bad impulse control (people with ADHD for example). And even if there's something informative in there. It will always lack a lot of information. It's like merely reading the headline of an article and then going into the comments, claiming you know everything about the topic (happens on Lemmy a lot). It's nice that you seem to have a grip on these shorts, but it's even greater that you can use certain tools to eradicate them. On my mobile phone I use YouTube revanced and on Firefox/waterfox I use Tweaks for YouTube. With the latter you can also change the thumbnail size and grid the way you want so you don't have to cope with the ridiculously large thumbnails.

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