I’ve noticed YouTube specifically has become more addictive, I never used to be one to sit and scroll for long durations before but I often catch myself spending way too long on shorts now
Even people or older generations seem to be getting sucked in nowadays
…and less effective, and more proprietary, and more homogenous.
Which, IMO, makes the smartphones less appealing and less addictive.
I speculate perhaps the-powers-that-be are making our smartphone experience incrementally shittier so we become less addicted to them, So as not to interfere with our work ethic being capitalist slaves.
“Git off yer damn phones and git back to work!!”
I’ve never found anything about those short video platforms appealing, yes there’s some creative people making great content on them but everything else is pretty much garbage.
My phone gets maybe an hour of use on a regular day and most of that is searching for music to listen to on Tidal.
Can’t say I agree with your example, but I agree in general with the idea. Shorts suck.
I spend way too much time on Lemmy and YouTube, but I’m not mindlessly scrolling. I’m hunting for specific content.
Shorts made it less addictive, they’re awful to watch and I invariably stop at one.
Perhaps you are experiencing a spike in your own addictive behaviour?
same with me. they’re awful and the content quality is depressing. but i think for many people shorts are the addiction
Oddly enough, there’s specific content only available through shorts that I would love to see (Scott Manley in particular does fantastic shorts), however I never see them because the shorts player invariably kills any enjoyment I may have be having at the time.
No matter what content exists on shorts, I will go out of my way to disable shorts altogether. If I could block the URL I would.
