These are all products that I legitimately like and want to engage with, but linking them all to a single account and more importantly a shared recommendation engine feels very flawed.

My music playlists from Youtube Music keep showing up on my Youtube homepage. Likewise, engaging with Youtube Shorts (especially subscribing) also subscribes to their youtube channel. I don’t know about anyone else, but what I find interesting in a 30 second video is not what I find interesting in a 10-30 minute video.

I feel like Google would be better served separating these recommendation engines. Even looking at this from a monetization lens, it feels inefficient. How do you guys feel? If you have any hacks or recommendations I’d love to hear them. I’m personally ready to create a TikTok account just to avoid contaminating my youtube feed.

  • tyo_ukkoEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry I can’t really contribute to your question, but would anyway like to take the opportunity to air my grievances: I hate Youtube shorts and TikToks with fierce passion. The format of short videos makes sense and is a good idea to some extent, but who the hell decided we’re not allowed to rewind our videos anymore? I want to hunt down that person, go to their house at night and tell them that they are not very good at their job so loud that their whole family can hear it.

    • saigot@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Tiktoks are mostly rewindable. The creator can set a setting I think to disable that, but I’ve only ever seen that on dumb thirst traps, on shorter videos you have to pause before the scrubber appears, which isn’t a great ui choice imo but it’s not a deal breaker.

      I don’t use shorts but I just tried out like 5 and they all had scrubbers?

      • tyo_ukkoEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I actually don’t use TikTok, I just assumed this BS comes from there since it got popular around the same time.

        Maybe I’m falling behind in technology, since I can’t make the scrubber appear on Youtube shorts no matter how I try. Even if it’s there somewhere, the design is pretty terrible since it’s not accommodating for old people like me who get easily angry, scared and confused.