TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads (www.gsmarena.com)
from boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 06:30
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admin@lemmy.my-box.dev on 17 May 2024 06:42 next collapse

As if their user base has that kind of attention span /s.

pavnilschanda@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 06:46 next collapse

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.

Squiddly@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 11:31 next collapse

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.

Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee on 17 May 2024 16:35 collapse

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

Alphane_Moon@lemmy.ml on 17 May 2024 08:03 next collapse

Why the /s though? :)

metaStatic@kbin.social on 17 May 2024 08:11 collapse

he was closing the <span>

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 May 2024 11:27 collapse

No /s needed

boem@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 07:19 next collapse

Meanwhile YouTube tries to copy TikTok by pushing Shorts.

Pechente@feddit.de on 17 May 2024 08:08 next collapse

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.

sab@kbin.social on 17 May 2024 08:40 next collapse

Also Telegram is growing shadier day by day. Signal is the way to go.

TWeaK@lemm.ee on 17 May 2024 11:37 next collapse

Hasn’t Telegram always been a Russian asset?

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works on 17 May 2024 14:40 next collapse

Threema is the way to go🇨🇭

Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 May 2024 15:49 collapse

Matrix is the way to go

hushable@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 11:24 next collapse

message editing is an odd one, several times I’ve edited a message and not seen the change reflected on my other devices for hours at the time. Makes me wonder if my recipient get the updated message with a massive delay as well.

pdxfed@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 13:38 next collapse

Google would never have too many products and lose focus.

laxe@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 02:37 collapse

They do this because they need to create “infinite” growth to justify their overvalued stock price

DarkThoughts@fedia.io on 17 May 2024 09:49 next collapse

I'm so glad that Enhancer for YT got updated again. No more Shorts spam for me.

100@fedia.io on 17 May 2024 10:22 collapse

yeah fuck that shit, hidden

teft@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 14:35 next collapse

Maybe i should start a medium form video hosting site…

RGB3x3@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 14:59 next collapse

No less than 10 minutes, but no more than 45 minutes.

That actually might be amazing.

teft@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 15:01 collapse

22 minute videos…we’ve just reinvented broadcast television.

bbuez@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 20:37 collapse

And we’ll put a series of ads to round it up to 1 hour, brilliant!

ArtVandelay@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 23:18 next collapse

If YouTube was too long and TikTok was too short, yours could be just right.

You could call it Goldilokk

teft@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 23:26 next collapse

That’s marketing gold right there.

Hadriscus@lemm.ee on 19 May 2024 00:59 collapse

perfect

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works on 18 May 2024 23:37 collapse

Remember OLD Youtube? With a 10 minute upload limit? Which is why the original Red Letter Media Mr. Plinkett review of The Phantom Menace, the work that basically invented the modern long-form video essay, was broken into 9 parts?

JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 17:26 collapse

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

robocall@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 07:22 next collapse

upload every episode of air crash investigations!

sirico@feddit.uk on 17 May 2024 07:23 next collapse

YT needs something like this tbf

HandMadeArtisanRobot@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 12:04 collapse

🤔

sirico@feddit.uk on 17 May 2024 14:29 collapse

Long form competition they’ve become far too complacent and not rewarding or pushing long form creators.

missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 May 2024 08:08 next collapse

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.

DarkThoughts@fedia.io on 17 May 2024 09:50 next collapse

Not the YT alternative we wanted, but the one we deserve... :(

CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 11:25 next collapse

Peertube pls take off

sugartits@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 13:06 next collapse

Not happening

small44@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 14:27 collapse

People can’t even register and comment. All instances i tried do not accept registrarion requests

Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works on 17 May 2024 14:39 collapse

Tilvids was easy and worked for me.

But yeah Peertube still needs some ease of use features.

xc2215x@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 11:51 next collapse

All these websites are taking features from other ones nowadays.

tonyn@lemmy.ml on 17 May 2024 13:35 collapse

This has been happening since AOL.

Kolanaki@yiffit.net on 17 May 2024 14:09 collapse

AOL itself is a ripoff of CompuServe. Which they then also bought.

airportline@lemmy.ml on 17 May 2024 16:22 next collapse

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative

Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 19 May 2024 11:29 collapse

You forgot this: /s

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip on 17 May 2024 17:08 next collapse

YouTube wants to be Ticktok so we have a circle

Blackmist@feddit.uk on 17 May 2024 20:51 next collapse

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

Zron@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 23:56 collapse

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.

HaroldHaarrison@sh.itjust.works on 17 May 2024 21:26 next collapse

TikTok = Chinese= BAAAAAAAD

_sideffect@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 22:44 next collapse

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

GaugeTurkeish@sh.itjust.works on 18 May 2024 23:28 next collapse

China bad guys

kratoz29@lemm.ee on 19 May 2024 01:39 collapse

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