Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook.

• lightnegative@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t know if YouTube died per se, but it certainly became enshittified.

  Heaps of content creators sold out to advertising interests and degraded their own platform. Not that I blame them really, money always talks

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  • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And new creators take their place, if you’re only seeing shit on YouTube it’s because you’re only subscribed to shit.

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tell me you’re out of touch without telling me you’re out of touch. Most of the good creators only upload once in a blue moon nowadays. The search feature is completely useless. Dislikes have been removed, so you can’t easily filter garbage anymore. Shorts, a toxic form of content, is getting pushed down users’ throats. Their UI is getting worse all the time…

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      • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I have no trouble finding good content and if you don’t use the official app or use it in your browser you can just disable shorts.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Heaps of content creators sold out to advertising interests and degraded their own platform. Not that I blame them really, money always talks

      And new creators take their place, if you’re only seeing shit on YouTube it’s because you’re only subscribed to shit.

      To be fair, a lot of the good ones have moved over to, or always has been on, Nebula. (I’m not getting paid for pitching Nebula, just stating.)

      In essence, you’re both right, to some degree, but not completely.

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• Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Splitting hairs isn’t going to change anything. TikTok is absolutely 100% a social network. It uses more video and less written word but that’s about it. YouTube hasn’t died (and neither has Facebook for that matter) but it was very different in its earlier incarnations. It has become more social as time has gone on, in an effort to remain relevant. It has largely copied TikTok.

  TikTok in turn will become a boring old platform used by Old People (millennials, Gen Z) and kids will (already are) on to something new.

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  • Nurgle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not splitting hairs, it’s a fundamental difference. My mother and my niece are friends on Facebook but they don’t follow each other on TikTok. Hell most people who are close friends IRL don’t even follow each other on TikTok. There’s no brand cache for old people to ruin its just a tool. Like

    Sure kids will move on to something new eventually, but it’s waaaay more likely to be cause all the ‘eligible for commission’ videos make it feel like the Home Shopping Channel not cause old people (continue to) use it.

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