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Loops by Pixelfed is finally sending out welcome emails after weeks (pixelfed.social)

submitted 1 month ago by AsudoxDev@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] foremanguy92_@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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