I suggest adding a rule to not post videos here.
In my humble opinion, the Technology community should only contain text news/articles or even news pictures.
I simply think that tech videos does not belong to this community, as there is already a videos community which would be more suitable for this.
What does the mods think about this?
Personally, I think if it's a video related to technology, it belongs in the technology community more so than the video community.
I really don't like the trend of things that should be articles, being videos instead. And I'm very unlikely to watch one of these videos. However, this is a personal preference and I don't necessarily think videos should be banned from this community. Instead upvotes/downvotes could decide that; if no one wants to see videos, no one should upvote them.
If the video is about technology. It's okay to post them here. If you don't like videos don't click them simple as.
That's an odd request. I'm not a huge fan of video content but there's legitimately good content in video format.
9 times out of 10 I prefer reading, but there's some videos that are absolutely worth watching over reading. That said, I don't really want to see talking heads. And I think people should include the channel/creator name in the title.
But as a reality check, I'm looking at the first page of this community and only see one YouTube link. Doesn't really seem like a problem worthy of a rule.
Videos are unfortunately the way a LOT of quality content is delivered now and banning any and all videos (relevant or not) is probably not the way to go.
GN, L1T, HUB and so on are super high-quality stuff that're tech related and that's basically how they deliver their content. A blanket ban would kill way too much good shit, imo.
There's lots of technology channels on YouTube and it's competition that do tech news that I feel are pretty relevant (gamerz nexus for sure). I wouldn't want people to lose that just because some of us (myself included) prefer written formats to videos.
If you don't like videos, don't watch videos.
How about letting those of us who enjoy video content, to continue to enjoy video content.
This shouldn't be a "I don't like it, so no one else should get it" situation. That's some selfish bullshit.
I'm almost certainly not going to watch one, but I'm not going to suggest they're banned, unless something changes and the majority of content becomes videos for some reason. I haven't felt that it's a problem.
I'd rather see posts of tech support or someone's shower thoughts be removed, because I see that pretty frequently, and it pushes the relevant content down. At least it's not 80% tangentially-related business news or "Musk tweeted something" any more.
I'm OK with actual honest to goodness videos on lemmy generally. It's those fucking gifs that drive me up the fucking wall. Gifs should be banned from lemmy, they're so heavily abused. 3 out of 4 "video" posts is actually just a 100mb+ gif. Use any fucking thing other than gifs. Fuck gifs. If I had a time machine I would go back in time just to prevent gifs from getting invented just so people would stop posting 1 minute long gifs all over lemmy. In fact, maybe I should plot and scheme to sneak the removal of gif support from the lemmy software git repo somehow the same way hackers got that ssh virus in.
Fuck gifs. Everyone needs to stop choosing to use them instead of any other format. Literally anything else would be better. Even drawing a representation of what happened in crayon would be better than posting a gif. If videos are too complicated to figure out you need to be posting a picture or maybe just go outside. Fuck.
For me, video is rarely the form that I want to consume any content in. It's also very obnoxious if I'm on a slow data link (e.g. on a slower or saturated cell phone link).
However, sometimes it's the only form that something is available in. For major news items, you can usually get a text-form article, but that isn't all content. I submitted a link to a YouTube video of a Michael Kofman interview the other day talking about military aid to a Ukraine community. I also typed up a transcript, but it was something like an hour and a half, and I don't know if that's a reasonable bar to expect people to meet.
I think that some of this isn't that people actually want video, but that YouTube has an easy way to monetize video for content creators. I don't think that there's actually a good equivalent for independent creators of text, sadly-enough.
And there are a few times that I do want video.
And there may be some other people that prefer video.
Video doesn't actually hurt me much at this point, but it would kind of be nice to have a way to filter it out for people who don't want it. Moving all video to another community seems like overkill, though. Think it might be better to have some mechanism added to Threadiverse clients to permit content filtering rules; I think that probably a better way to meet everyone's wants. It'd also be nice if there were some way to clearly indicate that a link is video content, so that I can tell prior to clicking on it.
I think this community needs new rules, I just saw a guy post an unpopular opinion here, I don' think it fits. This is the biggest lemmy community of all
Just don't click on YouTube links if you don't like them. Nobody makes you forces you to. No Lemmy client I know hides the URL and surprises you with video content. Plenty of video creators use that medium to showcase differences in technologies. Digital Foundry videos on topics such as frame generation come to mind.
They still clog the feed and cause accidental clicks.
At a minimum, all video posts' titles should start with [VIDEO]. Making a user scan for some easy to overlook cue that they're clicking on a video isn't great design.
They still clog the feed and cause accidental clicks.
So because you do occasional misclicks, nobody else should be allowed to see any video submissions, even if they are super informative? Buddy, get a grip with reality. You're not the center of the universe. Other people exist. "I don't like something, therefore nobody can have it" is not a proper attitude.
That's not much of a justification though. The existence of another community does not negate the validity of content in this community. After all cross-posting is a thing
But guys in a DeCeNtRaLiZeD social network no one is in control of what content gets posted.
Are you high?
A compromise would be to require a text summary of any video post.
My main beef is that I don’t enjoy watching video form content, but having a summary would be more than sufficient to quickly determine whether or not I would be interested in watching anyway.
Strongly agree.
That's what the headlien is for.
That "compromise" would put a lot of work onto the person submitting a video, just because some people don't like videos.
Yup, and requiring a bit of extra work sounds entirely reasonable to keep the quality of content high.
A post with nothing in it except a video link is not a post to begin with.
Posts should actually have some content in my opinion, otherwise it's just link dumping which is practically spam.
If I can't determine from the initial post if a article/video is of interest it shouldn't have been posted to begin with.