Personally, if I’m here I’m in the mood to read and almost never to watch a video. What about you?
Especially the blind links to YouTube.
Tell me what you’re linking to (particularly the channel or creator) and why it’s worth my time. Otherwise I’m not even giving it a second thought…
Also include the duration.
I womder if this is a limitation on the lemmy side. Piefed and mbin(?) And other fediverse services have more info when viewimg videos and pulls in metadata at time of run. Youtube/peertube/raw videos. Users may be assuming the same info is making its way into the community.
Is there a good example somewhere of a blind link i can look at? We can make a comparison and/or comfirm the issue.
Here is an example of what I’m talking about:
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/73061764
How I see it in my client(Voyager):
• In my feed
• In the post itself
Interesting. So in the original feed it attempted to pull inthe metadata:
looks like it was not successful. Maybe a different language?On piefed it was also not successful:
So the metadata didnt show up.https://kbin.earth/ showed the reposts:
Its all over the place. I can see this being frustrating!
One final note: mastodon/gotosocial complains about lack of metadata:
Which is what I would expect.
So to summarize. Yes its all over the place with descriptions and video data all over the fediverse. It would be nicer if people put something in the description. And if fedi clients can maybe auto-push the description on the video to the post like it occurs on peertube/piefed that would be nice as well.
I won’t even view clickbait links to text articles. If a title is “This amazing thing just happened in Canada” and the content is actually important, then someone else will write an article about it sooner or later.
There’s a place for them. There’s a place for everything. I agree if I’m here I’m mostly here to read/comment but it’s easy enough for me to just skip videos.
It is frustrating when a video is just dumped with no text, explanation reason or discussion. I also don’t like it when its used to market a brand/product or a influencer. Mostly because it feels like its there to take from the community here rather than contribute.
I actually love video and visual content but in recent years i have become offput due to the youtube effect of stupid voices and clickbait titles. It always feels a bit pushy, like i am being Told or Sold something, which destroys my natural inquisitiveness.
I feel like any video link more than a few minutes isn’t really meant to be viewed directly from the post/link.
If something seems interesting, I’ll put it on the TV and go back to browsing.
I can’t imagine people just watch a long video on their phones or only screen. It’s just people sharing a link to be watched elsewhere
I don’t mind them but I also don’t usually watch them.
How would people feel about a feature that lets them filter their feed by post type? You could choose not to see any videos or any images, etc.
I would love that on a per community level
I will watch music videos but that’s about it, but I’m a bit of an outlier as I never really got into watching videos or youtube in the first place
I’m with you, they should only be in dedicated video- or special interest communities where it’s appropriate.
It has to REALLY grab my interest in order for me to watch it, and I’m probably going to back out if I see that it’s longer than a minute or two.
I don’t mind them. Personally, I would perfer a link to a web article
If it doesn’t have a description of what is in the video I tend to ignore them.
Posts where it is clear that the video is just from title, like a link to a music video for a song, are perfectly fine. But a post that says a person comments on a topic need something more than that before I’m going to click, especially if I don’t know who the person is and why I would care about what they have to say.
There is some content that is better as a video. But turning what should be a one paragraph statement into a 15 minute video? Fuck that noise.
It’s okay but I would really love if I was able to filter by video, picture, article link or text post.
Sometimes, I’m really looking for interesting text posts and discussions to read and it would be nice to skip the memes and all that.
Oooh, I like this idea.
They’re already sent through with a type attached. So maybe having a nice filter client side would help out.
Fine, they’re ok.
There are things that can only really reasonably be done in video. [email protected] has clips of attacks being shown, for example. For those, I’m fine.
I almost always dislike things that could be done in text being in video. It’s faster to read than to watch, and much easier to skip around. It’s easily searchable, can be viewed on any kind of Internet connection, and consumes less battery on low-power systems. I think that a lot of the content that shows up in this form exists only because YouTube provides an easy way for people to monetize content, and there isn’t really a terribly effective analog for text.
There are a very, very small handful of things that I can think of where one could use both forms, and I’ve seen someone use video to legitimately get information across more-quickly. Maybe Montemayor’s military history videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd8_vO5zrjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjydKPcX60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHO6xrSF7Sw
I’ve read a bunch of material about the Battle of Midway, and while you can find more-detailed material out there, and if you put an hour-and-a-half into watching those three videos, you’ll probably get more out of it relative to the time invested than you would from the other sources I’ve gone through. Some of that is because of his heavy use of maps. Annoyingly, a lot of text sources don’t stick maps showing the state of a battle inline, but put them in separate sections or rely on a single map with tracks containing timestamps that one has to keep referring back to. Much easier to get a sense of what’s going on spatially to have “current state of things” maps thrown onscreen as one walks through the events.
But that sort of thing is really the exception that proves the rule. I’d guess that the great majority of videos I’ve seen could (a) be done in text and (b) be much more-condensed and I could pick up all the relevant material with much less time investment.
