Should have specified further. Sure, if you are only looking at memes and youtube shorts, TikTok might be an alternative. Personally my youtube use is mostly 20min / 1 hour educational videos or background noise played on a TV. Nothing but youtube really covers this use case well.
I’m quite satisfied with the platform since all the enshitification is removed on the premium version which provides pretty good value for money.
Yeah, YouTube is great if you want to see long form videos from people youre already subscribed to, but I find their recommendations to be quite inferior to tiktoks. Less than 10% success rate.
Come to think of it, the only people I've newly subscribed to on YouTube in the past year I've discovered through TikTok.
It's a shame YouTube prioritizes ads so far above user experience - they have everything needed to build the best video recommendations platform besides the will to prioritize that above ad revenue.
My girlfriend insisted for months that she watches educational non-meme content on tiktok but even she ultimately had to admit it’s just a cope for scrolling tiktok for hours for the dopamine hit.
Eh, I think it's a bit harsh. I've gotten so many good music, makeup, fashion, cooking, adhd, and art recs from TT. If your interests map to TT's format then it works well, if it doesn't then it doesn't.
If you're gonna spend a few minutes scrolling through your phone because you have an awkward amount of time then TT is to me the cream of the crop. Reddit/News/Twitter just makes me angry and feel bad, Pinterest/Tumblr are stale, Facebook is for old people.
I think the fact that you felt the need to explain that heroine actually feels way better than cigarettes (after I didn't even say otherwise) and personally insult me for saying otherwise (after I didn't) should give you pause.
Tiktok would much more aptly compared to vaping - they are both addictive, but youtube is much more harmful because it's filled with toxins - their algorithm sends you to videos about conspiracy theories and hate rhetoric instead of just "interesting stuff that may encourage continued scrolling".
Further, youtube's algorithm rewards creators that waste their viewers' time, while tiktok punishes it.
Chances that creators you like are there are basically zero. These alternatives are potential, not actual. The biggest of them, Vimeo doesn’t even have a user-facing frontpage.
Last I saw, Vimeo charged the uploader to host the content. And it's only use case was corporate videos where you wanted to ensure there was no suggested content or adverts around your own content. Though these days I'm not sure companies care as I haven't seen a vimeo link in a long time.
I listed 6 and you choose to complain about one. I don't care about any creators, I have a life. I use videos as a tool, if it fits what I'm searching for
