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willis936 | 6 days ago

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

https://youtu.be/tdIUMkXxtHg

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niam|6 days ago

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|6 days ago

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.