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[Meta] I suggest adding a rule to not post videos here. (feddit.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.