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[–] [email protected] 46 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The constant barrage of Joe Rogan clips of idiots claming it was impossible to move these huge stones over those distances with the tech at the time was what drove me to disable YouTube shorts.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You can disable shorts??

I need to do that. I get stuck in a loop of watching them, and 90% of them just piss me off anyway.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, the first and arguably most important step is recognizing how much of online content is specifically designed to get a reaction out of you, primarily in the form pissing you off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, might explain some of the irritability of people online.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What’s funny (I guess funny lol) is ever since I got my current job about 2.5 years ago, I no longer need to use social media. I am much, much happier without it. But I still get into little fights on forums and I really wish I didn’t. Every now and then I resolve to be less hostile, and things really do improve, but somehow I always get dragged back into old habits. But I’m a little hesitant to completely abandon things like Kbin because they are often my only window into events/what is going on/my hobbies. Idk what the answer is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well, the fact that you have the self awareness to realize is a great place to be. Not sure what to say other than try to treat your body with respect and your mind will follow.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I honestly I'm surprised how much of a problem this is for people. All I've done is made sure to hit the "not interested" type buttons on YouTube and tiktok whenever they pop up, and I've run into next to nothing after like 3 times of doing that. Sometimes I'll watch something the algorithm thinks is adjacent to ragebait or alt-right bullshit so it'll try to feed it to me, and after not-interested'ing the video it goes back to feeding me the stuff I actually want..

Do people just not use those features or is my experience with the algorithms really that different?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So you’re actually thinking of it a little more narrowly, which is understandable. What I mean by “content designed to piss you off” is VERY broad.

Conservatives like Fox News, but it makes them pissed off, right? Social media can be exactly the same way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah that's fair, I think I might've been injected other related conversations I've seen into this one. My bad!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No worries

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

i turned off watch history. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725.

now i dont get any recommendations from youtube and only watch what i am interested in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

There's probably a way to do it in browser with ublock origin or another extension.

On android, ReVanced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I use ReVanced on my phone and it has an option to hide shorts permanently. In the browser I use an extension for that, there are multiple ones.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The creation of the feature is what made me disable shorts. If I wanted vine then I'd go back to 2013.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Hey take that back. Vine and 2013 were marvellous times