I have no horse in the short-form video race, but I recognize that it has material affects on the world (whether I'd like it or not). Scorn for the principle of an open platform here seems misplaced. It seems too young of a format with too few examples to confidently say it's irredeemable.

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willis936 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What if we could say with some certainty that the format makes people stupid?

https://youtu.be/tdIUMkXxtHg

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niam an hour ago | parent [-]

We don't have many examples of short form video feeds which are divorced from the the TikTok and Reels algorithm -- both of which are aggressively incented to "engage" a user in ways they may not have preferred in the retrospect.

	▲	willis936 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well that's why people are doing science to figure that out. Right now it looks like the format itself acutely affects short term memory. The video really is worth a watch.

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spaceman_2020 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

HN is generally the place you come to to hate anything new in tech. No new piece of tech released in is ever liked here. Everyone nitpicks, strawmans, and complains that the v1 of the product is not perfect. It’s honestly so tiresome

	▲	colechristensen 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unhelpful nitpicks and people complaining about them get downvotes. At this time the top comment on this post is complaining about the rest of the comments. This is not how things should be around here.