Post #2164326

2026-05-07 10:35 UTC

I decided I had to add a Screen Time limit (of 0 minutes) for YouTube being accessed on my iPhone/iPad. I got into the habit of consistently watching Shorts over the last week or so, and I was wasting considerable amount of time on it without really noticing. It was the main reason I got rid of my TikTok account about a year ago so it felt like some kind of addiction relapse. So easy to fall into that rabbit hole so had to cut that shit off. #YouTube #Video

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@operationpuppet@gamerstavern.online 2026-05-07 10:51

@jamie@gamerstavern.online Don't feel too bad, it's a whole format designed specifically to trigger addictive behavior in *anyone*. One of my control mechanisms to avoiding it is remember to just get *pissed* at them if I ever find myself falling into it. They're *trying* to do this to me. Fuck that.

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@yuetzuyu@gamerstavern.online 2026-05-07 11:33

@jamie@gamerstavern.online Yeah short form content is brainrot. I got rid of TikTok for the same reason. The time limit for short feed in the app only hides it from the home feed. They should let you hide it altogether

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@alex@gamerstavern.online 2026-05-11 13:59

@jamie@gamerstavern.online I think I'm going to do the same, because I go wander in the home page from time to time after watching a video I searched for (mostly, gaming videos) and the suggestion algorithm is now completely effed up, plus it's getting weirder by the day...

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