the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high

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Like the face people make for the thumbnails

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I still have an attention span

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It’s because the “algorithm” looks at the average watch time and promotes content that people tend to watch to the end, so they incentivize creating content that has some punchline at the end, or that is just so confusing that you spend the whole time trying to figure out what is going on so you’re less likely to swipe away. If your mind can easily make a judgement about what you’re watching, you’re more likely to decide it’s something you don’t want to watch, and then swipe before the end. This counts against you in the algorithm.

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How limb does it have to be to get stuck in water vapor?

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i always interpret “watch to the end” as being a euphemism for “i did not edit this video properly” or “ipad babies are the intended audience of this video”. in any case, i will not be watching that video.

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Whether it's 15 seconds, minutes or hours doesn't matter, because they care about the decision that we make immediately.

Pete

This face almost made me downvote you.

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When you visit the same page with µBo:

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[Can’t tell if this is a piece of a new article or a continuation of the current one]

Man was take picture of lady and wowzah did he see

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Celebrity Colin Ferrel was seen today with ex-wife while wearing a brown coat

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Continue reading here

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For your own well-being I hope that is a joke

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Post like a bot get blocked like a bot

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I've been blissfully unaware of this trend, because I'm not on any other social media! I get that posting this is a bit of smug self-satisfaction, which nobody likes, but I feel strongly that corporate social media is a scourge, and that far too many people farm out their critical thinking to random "content creators." Black-box content algorithms are not doing you any favors, and they will affect your thinking if you subject yourself to them.

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Unlikely

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The man of culture part was.

Generally I think the dislike of Tiktok has to do with purity culture more than anything else. I typically find people who hate on Tiktok to be misinformed, willfully ignorant, massively hypocritical, or a combination thereof

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End comes after 10 minutes of video with nothing happening. And when something does happen, it's half out of frame and completely underwhelming.

KingJalopy

I've seen it twice on lemmy just today

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I think realising something is specifically designed predatory addiction engine and then practicing self restraint to avoid that product isn't being misinformed or something to be ashamed of.

TikTok, YT shorts, IG, they are all the same, and are categorically unhealthy for anyone; much less the youth.

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See, this is the purity culture, and it's always so selectively applied.

Things can have both good and bad aspects. Lots of good things can be bad when used too much.
Lemmy is much the same way. You say it was specifically designed to be an addiction engine, but all that involves is showing you things you like. Lemmy is the same, just that the algorithm is so simple that it can't show you any discovery or new things.
You can find similar arguments about almost every part of the internet.

Are there problems with Tiktok? Of course. There are also amazing parts of Tiktok. Just like Lemmy. Just like Mastodon. Just like pixelfed.

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You misunderstand the key design principles though. They are designed so that people struggle to have the strength of will to put the apps down, because every third thing they click through is generating ad revenue.

Lemmy isn't perfect, but I, like many others, have no issue putting it down when I'm done with it. I personally check it for about 10 minutes when I wake up and before I sign off for the night.

Its worth noting that Lemmy doesn't have an algorithm, it just shows you posts in chronological order (technically not true, as there are community ratios and such, but it's true enough for a general statement).

My disdain for these apps is born from watching family and friends waste days (sometimes 8+ hours at a time) on them, and then often being totally incapable of recalling anything they've watched or learned. It's actively harmful to their health.

Strepto

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dont forget to getting redirected to a suspicious page bcuz u missed the close button by 1 pixel