Comment on Lemmy is slowly dying while Reddit thriving

AnokLola@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • AnokLola@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That doesn’tchange the fact that this problem exists. Reddit’s superior multimedia support makes it a more competitive social media platform.

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    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Reddit’s superior multimedia support

      Never thought I’d ever read those 4 words in that order.

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      • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • AnokLola@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, you did (;

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    • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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©.

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    • Shalakushka@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t argue with that.

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    • BolexForSoup@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If reddit never introduced videos they wouldn't have the outrageous cost of hosting and serving them eating into their bottom line so much.

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  • ForestOrca@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    LoL, and so fortuity landed before us. So we jumped, and landed in the Fediverse. Yay! At least that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

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