On the old site, there were a number of funny video communities with regular posts, for example /r/Unexpected, /r/PublicFreakout, or /r/WhatCouldGoWrong. While there are plenty of memes on Lemmy, we have relatively little video content. Those of you who used to frequent video subs, what have you replaced them with since coming to Lemmy?
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I got to tell you, I don’t really miss those subs. I don’t think they are good for people. 
Agreed. I had to unsubscribe from a lot of them when I realized it was becoming my “daily two minutes of hate”
“daily two minutes of hate”
Dang, you’re right.
What made Reddit bearable for me was that more than half my subs were cat/cute animal subs. It helped drown out the stuff that made me angry or feel despair.
Wow I never realized that’s where we are. Except Orwell underestimated the length.
I agree a lot with what Orwell said in he’s book, but actually I think Huxley hit a little closer to home on this point. I’m sure you’ve seen this before, yeah?
https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webcomic-2/
OP just made me realise that I haven’t seen such videos in a little while and honestly I agree with you. I’m better without.
For real, it reads like satire. This is the shit you are missing?
Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. It’s the diversity that make social platforms interesting, even if some of it isn’t interesting for me.
That’s why we can choose which communities we join on the Fediverse.
I miss YouTube haiku’s
Man, the main virtue of lemmy is the lack of intrusive videos and images.
The communities I’m talking about were dedicated to video. If you didn’t like such videos, you’d never subscribe to them. I’m not talking about videos posted to otherwise text-based communities.
I always used YouTube for video content.
How do you find videos that fit a specific category, like “What Could Go Wrong”?
Others I liked is r/holdmybeer, r/thatlookedexpensive, and r/instantregret
At least Lemmy has the “Post an unhelpful comment and extra points if you try to make OP feel bad for their choices” part of this down pat.
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
!curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
!DeepIntoYouTube@kbin.social
!importantvideos@lemmy.best
edited to fix links and also I just realized I’m an idiot because curatedtumblr isn’t a video community, but I’m leaving it to pad the post.
Unfortunately that’s not the best way to link to communities on Lemmy, when people click those links they see it through Lemmy.world your home instance.
You want to format the links like below, with an exclamation point before the community name @ the instance that the community is hosted on
!curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.works
!DeepIntoYouTube@kbin.social
!importantvideos@lemmy.best
When you link it this way it will open on whatever instance the viewer is viewing your comment on.
TIL
Thank you for the information.
Absolutely my pleasure, Lemmy will be a better place when everyone knows how to use it.
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Youtube for interesting videos and I don’t really watch shortform stuff. You could try tiktok.
YouTube has Shorts. Mine is mostly cute parrots and dog grooming videos though
youtube shorts are mostly youtube videos cut down where as tiktok has a lot of original content. I dont use tiktok though
A good number of those subreddits became breeding grounds for not-so-subtle racist dogwhistling, so I don’t really miss them.
A lot of the others sort of ran through the actually good, viable content before expanding to being less good (/r/YoutubeHaiku basically dropping the ‘unscripted’ requirement and becoming essentially, short-form skits and streamer clips). I tend to follow people with content I like directly on TikTok and Youtube these days. Aggregators of content tend to go either generic or toxic, I find.
r/Public Freakout banned a ton of racist users who then got together and made r/ActualPublicFreakouts which was basically Nazi shit.
!whatcouldgowrong@lemm.ee is fairly active. Not sure about replacements for the others though.
That’s also the only one I know of, and unfortunately there’s only a post every other day.
Not having access to publicfreakouts here has probably improved my health. One community I wish was stronger here is idiotsincars. The only subreddits I still read are askcarsales, justrolledintotheshop, and idiotsincars because I do not see them moving to a different platform anytime soon. I don’t mind them being on reddit because they are good communities. Kind of stinks though because I don’t participate there anymore. I still check them once or twice a day like I am trying to do with Lemmy to reduce my exposure to bullshit.
Yep, idioiotsincars is one that I miss, too!
I don’t miss the toxicity of the comments of that community though. I just went there to watch
carsdrivers doing entertaining stuffi miss youtubehaiku
The only subreddit I miss is combatfootage, and we already have communities that fill that niche, albeit no where near as active
Honestly FixedByTheDuet was my personal favorite, I miss it but I’m willing to make the sacrifice to stay away from reddit and keep using Infinity
Couldn’t agree more! That sub had some hilarious videos, I pray that one day we get a similar one here.
Man giga same, I have so many vids from there downloaded to my current phone and old phone, it’s insane
I found PF and WCGW to be not at all funny and more rage-inducing. They certainly deepened my misanthropy. I never subbed to those, but crossposts made it to r/facepalm now and then. I don’t miss having my outrage muscle exercised like that.
Since launching one of my own it’s surprising to me how hard content is to come by with the more niche type of stuff. It will naturally happen as more people contribute. Seems we have substantially more lurkers that were willing to relocate rather than posters.
Which have you launched?
!accidentalbukkake@lemmyf.uk
!crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world is here, but not particularly active.