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.
It’s presumably because they’re expensive to host
you’re right Reddit has too many short videos and gifs, mostly in portrait aspect ratios lol
I’m just happy there are no 8-second brainrot videos that could’ve been posted as a single sentence. I saw someone linking something like that here once, and I now have a client-side block on tiktok.
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.
