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?
- bauhaus ( @bauhaus@lemmy.ml ) English89•1 year ago
I got to tell you, I don’t really miss those subs. I don’t think they are good for people. 
- mrbubblesort ( @mrbubblesort@kbin.social ) 36•1 year ago
Agreed. I had to unsubscribe from a lot of them when I realized it was becoming my “daily two minutes of hate”
- Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
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.
- waratchess ( @waratchess@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year ago
“daily two minutes of hate”
Dang, you’re right.
- tias ( @tias@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•1 year ago
Wow I never realized that’s where we are. Except Orwell underestimated the length.
- mrbubblesort ( @mrbubblesort@kbin.social ) 4•1 year ago
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/
- RandomStickman ( @RandomStickman@kbin.social ) 16•1 year ago
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.
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ) 11•1 year ago
For real, it reads like satire. This is the shit you are missing?
- TheHalc ( @TheHalc@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- Afghaniscran ( @Afghaniscran@feddit.uk ) 5•1 year ago
I miss YouTube haiku’s
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@midwest.social ) 38•1 year ago
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.
- Reil ( @Reil@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
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.
- SeaJ ( @SeaJ@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago
r/Public Freakout banned a ton of racist users who then got together and made r/ActualPublicFreakouts which was basically Nazi shit.
- jmp242 ( @jmp242@sopuli.xyz ) 9•1 year ago
I always used YouTube for video content.
How do you find videos that fit a specific category, like “What Could Go Wrong”?
- bermuda ( @bermuda@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
i miss youtubehaiku
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 8•1 year ago
Youtube for interesting videos and I don’t really watch shortform stuff. You could try tiktok.
- Ricaz ( @Ricaz@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
YouTube has Shorts. Mine is mostly cute parrots and dog grooming videos though
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 1•1 year ago
youtube shorts are mostly youtube videos cut down where as tiktok has a lot of original content. I dont use tiktok though
- radix ( @radix@lemm.ee ) 8•1 year ago
!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.
- Thurgo ( @Thurgo@lemm.ee ) English6•1 year ago
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!
- TheLemming ( @u202307011927@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
I don’t miss the toxicity of the comments of that community though. I just went there to watch
carsdrivers doing entertaining stuff
- XPost3000 ( @XPost3000@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
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
- sure ( @sure@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Couldn’t agree more! That sub had some hilarious videos, I pray that one day we get a similar one here.
- XPost3000 ( @XPost3000@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Man giga same, I have so many vids from there downloaded to my current phone and old phone, it’s insane
- SlovenianSocket ( @SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca ) English4•1 year ago
The only subreddit I miss is combatfootage, and we already have communities that fill that niche, albeit no where near as active
- Mugmoor ( @Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•1 year ago
!crazyfuckingvideos@lemmy.world is here, but not particularly active.
- willya ( @willya@lemmyf.uk ) English2•1 year ago
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.
- Skalbagge ( @Skalbagge@lemm.ee ) 1•1 year ago
I’m wondering the same. Also why isn’t anyone posting gfycat links?