I noticed the new betas have the ability to upload video clips. I think this has been a huge missing feature that Reddit and other social media platforms have
I noticed the new betas have the ability to upload video clips. I think this has been a huge missing feature that Reddit and other social media platforms have
Right, I can see the appeal for some special purposes, but to be honest, external links to videos did just fine so far - and makes it easy for those of us who can’t be bothered to simply block youtube.com and youtu.be as external domains, and done.
If videos make up the post itself, I can see my frontpage flooded with stuff I don’t care to see.
And just for the record, I don’t hate videos per se, I just think it’s opening up the platform for very low effort posts. If you’re writing an article about a highly technical topic and then link a video to visualize it, great. But if there’s just a headline and a video, I might as well not be bothered at all.
I suppose the low effort posts are the real problem. I didn’t know if it’s any better or worse if it’s a picture or a video.
Inserting the thumbnail automatically along with the link would suit me fine, rather than Lemmy doing anything native with the video.
I dunno, you may have won me over on this!