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.

  • Azure@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Youtube shorts being visually hard to tell the difference but being in my sub lists AND breaking the queuing is obnoxious. I have been cutting myself off from google products as much as I can, they are just so shitty now.

  • crowsby@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I dislike the general trend towards platforms feeling compelled to blindly imitate the various interaction mechanisms from platforms. Sometimes I just want to Instagram on Instagram. But then they had to follow-the-leader, so now you can Snapchat on Tiktok, or TikTok on Instagram. Companies are compelled to do many things haphazardly instead of one (or a few) things well.

    This is simultaneously coupled with a growing trend towards disallowing any type of UI customization. You will take our experience and you will like it. How dare you want to turn off our faux Tiktok bullshit that our developers spent so many months plagiarizing.

  • tyo_ukko@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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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.

  • Dusty@l.dustybeer.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I personally despise yotuube shorts. I use rules in my ublock origin to block them so I don’t see them on my youtube page.

  • neshient@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Not a YouTube music user but I’ve started to use the shorts to find new creators since my video feed has gone stale. That’s the frustrating since I just want a long form video to leave on but find myself doom scrolling on shorts looking for something new.

  • Reil@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wish I could at least separate my likes list by content type. I hit like/dislike on shorts way more frequently than long-form videos to train that algorithm, but when I go into that list, I’m usually trying to find a long-form video from a while back.

  • bloop@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have separate profiles for youtube music and youtube, for this exact reason.

    • greenskye@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Does this work with the paid subscriptions? I figured that would require multiple subscriptions. Plus in my experience Google is really hostile to being logged into multiple accounts at a time. I wouldn’t want to have to constantly switch my Gmail for example.

      • bloop@beehaw.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        As long as the accounts are linked to the same email, I think it should be fine. I multiple Youtube brand accounts that are all under the same gmail address.