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[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still waiting for Excel stories ...

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gee, let's take a look at what John did today in cell AE2672...

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm not proud to admit that I kinda wanna know what John is up to in cell AE2672

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tough, John doesn't even know what he's up to in cell AE2672

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That checks out actually... I'm satisfied with that answer lol

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

stories for messaging apps like WhatsApp/Signal were the most out of place irritating features. no idea why they thought it'd work

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Generally I agree, on Messenger it's an annoying waste of space that barely anyone uses.

It is nice to have if you can hide it, lets those that use it use it

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're not trying to please the customers, you're trying to please the shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

If every corporation and social media offers the same thing you won’t notice when they are all inevitably bought and own by the same person.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Can't help but feel like most of what's posted here is like the "old man yells at cloud" meme lol. Short form video is huge, people love it, young adults spend a ton of time on it, and most importantly it's profitable.

But I get it, us millenials were the primary demographic on the internet for a long time, it's a weird shift to see things that don't cater to us pop up.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not really, twitch is a streaming service. It's weird for it to have stories. It's like if your toaster also was able to have a small one item freezer. It just doesn't make that much sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

There's shorts and there's stories. Superficially similar but fundamentally different in how they are consumed.

Makes a lot of sense for Twitch to have shorts, it fits into their core business of streaming. Stories not so much, maybe I'm biased by Instagram and WhatsApp but stories are for personal stuff.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would argue that short video clips on a video streaming service actually makes a lot of sense...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It is a live streaming service. That doesn't make any sense at all. What are you going to post, the first minute of your stream?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

You could already watch previously recorded videos before. You could also previously “clip” a video to isolate a short moment of a stream.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't know, maybe funny clips? Notable moments from stream? You know, that clip functionality that Twitch has had for years that allows sharing short clips from the stream?

I'm starting to think you guys have never actually used the platforms you're complaining about lol.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it’s a way for Streamers who go live infrequently can still provide updates and content without forcing their fans to follow them on Twitter. I agree though if a Streamer is going live 4 hours a day everyday why would they create shorts?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can I just not like something?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can do whatever you want my dude, I'm not the thought police

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's exactly what the thought police would say.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Shit, covers blown!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

It's more than just being a certain demographic, I've caught myself numerous times just swiping through YouTube stories without thought. It's a way to gauge interest in topics quickly and frequently to sell advertising. It honestly freaks me out sometimes, how easily it is to just scroll and scroll without even noticing....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just like the new "samples" tab in YouTube music. A whole new tab, just to show 10 sec versions of music clips.

It seems that in a few generations, the average attention span will consist of milliseconds.

Maybe this generation has already evolved in a way that their brains are able to process the amount of information we are confronted with daily.

This could be our next step in evolution: our brains learn to handle information unconsciously, they grow even bigger over generations, archiving tons of data, we haven't even looked at yet - but can look into, if required.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

For sure, constant instant rewarding mechanisms and not practising delayed rewarding in no way whatsoever will do great.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah another amazing idea like their "moments" which just ended up being cringe. This is just clips but with an expiration date. It'd make more sense to have them copy TikTok/YouTube shorts format, but with Twitch clips that they already have.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but somehow they don't like clips and it's a pain to access them now, if the streamer has not highlighted any.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that Twitch still doesn't allow users to upload pre-made videos besides of channel intros. Amazon has the technical infrastructure to actually compete with YouTube on its own turf, and they decide to just limit themselves for no particular reason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

one can still "stream" a pre-recorded video-file and even make re-runs or their older streams officially, they just want to limit actual data-rehosting, as storage costs for backlogs might exceed any ad-revenue from them

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Inb4 Lemmy and Mastodon introduces stories.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

these features are why i avoid those other sites so seeing it leak into sites i actually use is really irritating. i’m still annoyed with youtube shorts all over my damn subscription feed

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