Back in the day, introducing video posts destroyed facebook, a friends chatter platform, slowly but surely. Same fate with instagram, a photography/memory platform, getting into reels and videos.
Now if I go to reddit once a month to check in what the vibe is since my “detox” I realized.
Its all designed to drain. Drain your energy, your free thought, your long term happiness. Like not even hyperbolic, this is really scary.
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And we all know thanks to the c/reddit community here on lemmy: Its full of this hidden but omniprersent corpo shilling, ads and corpo censoring.
Yep, Lemmy is not engagement-driven in the same sense as other platforms. Thus, development doesn’t necessarily have to distill itself into yet another short video slop sharing platform.
There are videos (youtube/peertube) linked here, but many are long-form analyses, news releases instead of vine-style memes.
this is what I mean, and I hope the community will fend off any attempt to implement these features!