Comment on Lemmy is slowly dying while Reddit thriving
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 11 months agoThe 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.
AnokLola@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That doesn’tchange the fact that this problem exists. Reddit’s superior multimedia support makes it a more competitive social media platform.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never thought I’d ever read those 4 words in that order.
Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months 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.
AnokLola@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well, you did (;
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months 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©.
Shalakushka@kbin.social 11 months 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.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 11 months 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.
AnokLola@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Thank you for saving my time.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Can’t argue with that.
BolexForSoup@kbin.social 11 months 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.