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The ability to upload video clips that’s coming in Lemmy 0.2 will bring more activity to Lemmy (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

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!