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Does this include Youtube videos? Or at least Youtube videos without a clear description and summary?
Those constant ad money farming posts really lower the quality of this sub.
Yes. Posting a fucking link to a yt video is low effort
Seems there are 2 kinds - video links with almost no text, just farming visits, and video links with a wall of text.
Both suck. Videos, in general, suck.
So much of what goes on here needs text, lots of it. Video is slow and cumbersome.
If the quality of the video is good, I like to see it here.
At minimum there should be a good description of what the video is about, with no clickbait.
The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn't unusual.
Source: Former technical trainer - I've read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that's all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.
But how would you know before watching?
"Based on the upvotes and comments" Oh then others doing the work to watch it and rate it on lemmy for you.
Imo, when a link to a video or forum or whatever is posted, then at least a summery or a discussion should be included.
That is what Lemmy is for. Sometimes you will take the risk and watch the video and comment, if it interests you more.
Other times you'll let others do it for you, or skim over it if it interests you less.
That's how I use Lemmy anyway.
Most ppl seem to agree with me.
Live and let live I say.
It seems, the majority does not want it.
If ppl do not like it they can use another selfhosted from another instance. Thats what lemmy or the fediverse is build for.
Do not want what?/I'm not sure what you're talking about?
I was just saying it is fine to browse Lemmy reading comments to find out what a video is about, not that we should have low effort video posts.
The discussion is about low effort Link only Video and or others Posts. If you are not reffering to them then you missed the point.