The lack of video support is understandable tbh in 2 ways.
Storing a bunch of videos are really costly for the instance owners
Direct Youtube play on Lemmy directly probably won’t ever happen, since Lemmy uses an open embed protocol (opengraph) and YT doesn’t or something like that. There was an issue about this topic on Github but can’t find it.
the best reddit was the one before you could post media inline. before the covered the fornt page in nonsense. when it was a link aggregator with threaded discussion, and nothing more.
I swear I could hand-write a set of ASCII art frames that you can turn into a low-res copy of Shrek by scrolling down really fast AND have it proof-read, by the time the Reddit video player successfully loads the play icon.
By this logic Instagram and TikTok are better than either, and yet the more any social media site becomes like those two, the more quickly I want to leave it.
Anok most likely means that the average Joe prefers convenience over freedom/privacy etc, and this is a convenience part that Lemmy seriously lacks in currently.
The problem is there’s a direct correlation between decreasing quality and ease of image posts. So yeah, we won’t get as much engagement, but that is definitely a quality/quantity problem.
Reddit was better when folks had to roundtrip through Imgur IMO
If reddit never introduced videos they wouldn’t have the outrageous cost of hosting and serving them (which they do with third party cloud services) eating into their bottom line so much.
Lemmy doesn’t have videos and this is funny if you think about it
The lack of video support is understandable tbh in 2 ways.
That doesn’t change the fact that this problem exists. Reddit’s superior multimedia support makes it a more competitive social media platform.
the best reddit was the one before you could post media inline. before the covered the fornt page in nonsense. when it was a link aggregator with threaded discussion, and nothing more.
i sure miss that reddit. whatever the fuck youre talkin about… thats not reddit, thats Reddit©.
Never thought I’d ever read those 4 words in that order.
Well, you did (;
I swear I could hand-write a set of ASCII art frames that you can turn into a low-res copy of Shrek by scrolling down really fast AND have it proof-read, by the time the Reddit video player successfully loads the play icon.
By this logic Instagram and TikTok are better than either, and yet the more any social media site becomes like those two, the more quickly I want to leave it.
Anok most likely means that the average Joe prefers convenience over freedom/privacy etc, and this is a convenience part that Lemmy seriously lacks in currently.
Thank you for saving my time.
Can’t argue with that.
The problem is there’s a direct correlation between decreasing quality and ease of image posts. So yeah, we won’t get as much engagement, but that is definitely a quality/quantity problem.
Reddit was better when folks had to roundtrip through Imgur IMO
If reddit never introduced videos they wouldn’t have the outrageous cost of hosting and serving them (which they do with third party cloud services) eating into their bottom line so much.