It’s been great 4 days here on fediverse for me. But I started to notice that there is barely any content in form of videos or gifs. Every content is just static in form is images or text. This is what I am really missing here compared to reddit. Is there any particular reason behind it?

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    For now I don’t think it makes sense to federate large media like videos. The storage costs are just too high to replicate this data all over the place.

    The better model I think is to link to content providers with more traditional approach to providing videos. Lemmy is a link aggregator after all, not a media platform.

    TBH, I think this was the downfall of Reddit. Reddit had kind of devolved into a cesspit of reactionary videos. Can’t say I miss those, sure it was entertaining, but it forms habits of doom scrolling and at the end of the day, I don’t want it if it takes shitty business models to support such a service.

    Lemmy should stay focused on what made Reddit famous: being the front page of the internet, and honest, raw commenting system to hear from the people.

    • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      I wholeheartedly agree with this. Reddit has been slowly descending into becoming yet another Instagram/TikTok clone. You scroll a never ending front page of videos and pictures, and it gets somewhat overwhelming pretty quickly.

      I think this might be the necessary distinction that will make this a unique space different from Reddit. The less doomscrolling I can have in my life, the better.

      • zerozaku@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s true that reddit has got tiktokified but what I want is not that tiktok content. I just want multimedia here on lemmy via any form. Be it from any other instance or embedding media sharing platforms.

        Not having videos on fediverse is just plain boring. I always don’t want to interact or read text based content all the time. Sometimes I want to scroll and chill on the videos/gifs which can be informative, funny and so on.

    • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      For now I don’t think it makes sense to federate large media like videos. The storage costs are just too high to replicate this data all over the place.

      Luckily, media isn’t federated but only stored where it was uploaded ^^