(This is my second account. My first was made almost a year before this one. I initially came to Lemmy in early 2020.)
I haven’t been terribly active here. I’ve always been more of a lurker anyway unless I feel like there’s something worth piping in with. To me a place being filled with more stuff doesn’t necessarily make it better.
However, I do already see too many people trying to accelerate this place towards being Reddit in a negative way. They want celebrity AMAs. Dull memes are flooding in and being upvoted. People are trying hard to make inside jokes and call things the X of Lemmy (like the weird post about the person saying they don’t want to poop for three days). People are trying to kinda indiscriminately flood communities with copies of what’s being posted on similar Reddit communities because they think more=better.
I grew to hate Reddit over about 15 years of being there and hadn’t been using it much in recent years. I’m concerned a lot of what I didn’t like about Reddit is now being carried over. I don’t know, but to me it feels like some people are fleeing a dump and now they want to turn the new place into a dump too. And given how easy it is to flood a place, it’s not hard for a small group to do that.
Maybe it’s just me getting older. I’ve been on the verge of giving up the small bit of social media like this that I continue to use anyway.
I see, interesting perspective. I think it is somewhat natural to try and bring everything reddit-style over to lemmy right now because we all want this place to grow from the exodus at reddit. Having familiar content and communities is how we can make new members feel right at home. Over time we will properly split off and become our own thing tho.
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.
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 ^^
I have another cool tip for you. You can embed the graphic into your comment when you use markdown formatting. This way  becomes this:
Since it sounds like you have auto media preview turned off, just tap that little icon to the left of the link, and you'll see the image load below the link.
Oooooo... Yes that's it. Thank you. That's a good protip. I'm assuming that's a setting that I probably turned off while trying to make the the All page be more compact.
Edit: I don't know where that setting is. It's not in my profile settings.
My God. Multiple times I've been on that screen in the past. But every time, I'll have no idea how I got there. I've tried to get back, but the best I had was on a magazine's page at the very bottom.
Thank you for showing this.
My opinion? This is AWFUL design. That a second settings button is THERE is unbelievable. Maybe I'm not hip to how the fediverse exactly works, but this doesn't feel like the right route to that stuff.
On Lemmy that is. Kbin I believe replicates everything (unless I set my server up wrong). My server at the moment pulls in around 1.5 GB a day it seems. There is a pull request open on the kbin git repo for a feature to auto-remove old media. Personally I'd like the ability to turn on/off media replication. If an instance wants a complete copy in case of defederation/disconnection somehow, they can opt in and mirror all media that comes in. Most servers should just link to the original image source on the originating instance though.
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.
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.
I was worried that lemmy wouldn't reach the pinnacle of quality to match reddit, and then this post came along to soothe those fears. Good luck on your no poop quest.
I never noticed that its actually the flag colors! It's also available in every country with an Ikea, which is all of europe, north america, oceania and large parts of asia.
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