Back in the day, introducing video posts destroyed facebook, a friends chatter platform, slowly but surely. Same fate with instagram, a photography/memory platform, getting into reels and videos.
Now if I go to reddit once a month to check in what the vibe is since my “detox” I realized.
Its all designed to drain. Drain your energy, your free thought, your long term happiness. Like not even hyperbolic, this is really scary.
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And we all know thanks to the c/reddit community here on lemmy: Its full of this hidden but omniprersent corpo shilling, ads and corpo censoring.
I am confused. Plenty of videos get posted to Lemmy.
you mean like tube links?
I havent seen posts with build-in player feature, like the ones that encourage uncoscious behaviour as in the examples mentioned, does that make sense?
Ahh, I see. Yeah, the web interface doesn’t have that, but many apps for Lemmy do.
you’re right Reddit has too many short videos and gifs, mostly in portrait aspect ratios lol
A lot of people browse on their phones these days, the portrait vs landscape debate is moot.
Yep, Lemmy is not engagement-driven in the same sense as other platforms. Thus, development doesn’t necessarily have to distill itself into yet another short video slop sharing platform.
There are videos (youtube/peertube) linked here, but many are long-form analyses, news releases instead of vine-style memes.
It’s presumably because they’re expensive to host
