1y ago

TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads

www.gsmarena.com TikTok wants to be YouTube now, tests 60-minute video uploads

This might steal some viewers from Google's service. TikTok is currently testing 60-minute video uploads, in its never ending quest to be more like...

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Meanwhile YouTube tries to copy TikTok by pushing Shorts.
- Reminds me of how stories are everywhere now or how everyone copied clubhouse for a while. Instead of strengthening what a product is good at, these companies want their products to he everything at once and often lose focus about what their product was originally good at.
  Telegram for example becomes a fully blown social network now but message sync and notifications between different clients are spotty now - that’s what made them great for me in the beginning.
  
  Also Telegram is growing shadier day by day. Signal is the way to go.
  
  message editing is an odd one, several times I've edited a message and not seen the change reflected on my other devices for hours at the time. Makes me wonder if my recipient get the updated message with a massive delay as well.
  
  They do this because they need to create “infinite” growth to justify their overvalued stock price
  
  Google would never have too many products and lose focus.
- I'm so glad that Enhancer for YT got updated again. No more Shorts spam for me.
  
  yeah fuck that shit, hidden
- Maybe i should start a medium form video hosting site…
  
  No less than 10 minutes, but no more than 45 minutes.
  That actually might be amazing.
  
  If YouTube was too long and TikTok was too short, yours could be just right.
  You could call it Goldilokk
  
  Remember OLD Youtube? With a 10 minute upload limit? Which is why the original Red Letter Media Mr. Plinkett review of The Phantom Menace, the work that basically invented the modern long-form video essay, was broken into 9 parts?
- Shorts are so abominably bad, I feel like I fell through a portal into another dimension when i watch the absolute garbage there.

As if their user base has that kind of attention span /s.
- Not to mention that it's hard to intuitively watch longterm videos on TikTok. Once you swipe a video, it's gone, unless you save it on favorites, and it's not easy to get back to the video, either. At least on YouTube, it's easier to go back to the paused video from the homepage.
  
  Another thing about TikTok that I don't get is all the useless crap laid over the video. Seems extremely distracting to me.
  
  As a frequent tiktok user as of late, swiping away a video doesn't make it go away forever. You can always go back, also there's a view history if you're really trying to find a video you lost. People shit on tiktok a lot but it's made my cooking phenomenal.
- Why the /s though? :)
  
  he was closing the span
- No /s needed

Peertube pls take off
- Not happening
- People can't even register and comment. All instances i tried do not accept registrarion requests
  
  Tilvids was easy and worked for me.
  But yeah Peertube still needs some ease of use features.

YouTube wants to be Ticktok so we have a circle

Finally, a competitive YouTube alternative
- You forgot this: /s

upload every episode of air crash investigations!

I'm a TikTok user (sorry) and love the longer educational videos, but over 10 minutes which is the current limit seems excessive in this format. I wanna be able to pause and continue these later which doesn't fit into how TikTok works.
IMO these should be separated into different apps, when I use YouTube I also don't wanna be made to watch their shorts. I wouldn't mind a YT alternative by TikTok – don't get me wrong they're also a horrible company but it wouldn't harm to have competition by one of the few who could pull it off.

"I'd like to take this 5 minute break and thank all my sponsors before we get into the video!"

What's the point? Most people I see on Tiktok have so little attention span that everything gets skipped after the first 5 seconds.
- They make it to five seconds?
  My wife maybe watches the first 700 milliseconds before deciding if she’s going to watch a video.
  TikTok has melted her already short attention span. We’re working on cutting down on it, but she’s truly addicted to social media in general.