also can we get a score card on how are posts are doing?

      • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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        244 months ago

        Because we’re more conscientious? Because we’re more tech-savvy? Because we’re more suspicious of links?

        IDK but I appreciate it

      • HobbitFoot
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        84 months ago

        Probably due to the average age of a lot of people on Lemmy. I’ve found that a lot of people who are middle aged or older have a preference for text over video.

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          I’m not old, I just don’t want dig though 20 minutes of “content” to watch a 3 second clip. It’s like SEO filler at this point. I’m here to doom scroll, not watch videos. A video feels like hitting a speed bump.

        • @[email protected]
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          Interesting, I assumed the average age was younger here.

          I wonder.

          Also, I noticed text on a lot of videos on tiktok, and that skews young, right? like vine never had subtitles, but that was a lot of young people too.

          Maybe the culture is just changing, a lot of other countries use subtitles for everything.

          • @[email protected]
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            104 months ago

            It’s not subtitles, it’s text instead of video.

            As an “older” person, I much prefer one or two paragraphs I can skim in 30 seconds to a 5-10 minute video that is 95% fluff…

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        I suspect it’s some social justice posing bullshit in the name of blind people, but I like it because it’s broken the stranglehold that the “hey instead of reading a 30 second article let’s watch a 10 minute video loaded with ads!” mentality has on gen z.

        • @[email protected]
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          44 months ago

          Heaven forbid those woke ass blind people be able to enjoy life the same as people with full vision!

          Also, it’s a text description of a video. How tf does that help blind people more than just watching the video?

          • @[email protected]
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            54 months ago

            Text readers are more accurate than video interpreters. Blind people use the internet by having bots read text out loud to them.