Do you have any suggestions about the state of the !videos community or thoughts you’d like to share? Rules you wish should be implemented, or just a request for the kind of content you’d like to see be posted here? Comment below!

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  • Althea@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Personally I’d prefer to see politics videos allowed. Back in the early days of reddit, r/videos was full of politics videos with lots of engagement. Finally they sent all that to the r/politicalvideo ghetto to die. I always thought that was too bad.

    • Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Videos is such a broad category so I definitely understand the sentiment that political videos should be allowed as long as they’re not peddling blatantly false agendas. Personally however, I find politics to be increasingly draining on the psyche and sometimes I just want a community where I can turn my brain off and enjoy some silly and quick laughs or some interesting factoids or mini docs, etc.

      I guess it all depends on whether the community here wants c/videos to be lighthearted or a broader category.

    • danc4498@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What was the reason given for removing politics? I think it’s worth a try, but I bet the engagement quickly becomes too toxic to be worth it.

    • AdamsGuitar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’d prefer we didn’t allow political videos. I would like a place to be able to just enjoy a funny or interesting video without having to sit through some far-right or far-left propaganda piece. That doesn’t mean there’s no place for those but can we keep some areas free of the persistent alternating echo chambers?

  • Dazza@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This maybe a wefwef thing but most posts atm are just hyperlinks. Some have thumbnails but most don’t. It would be helpful if thumbnails always came up but again not sure if that’s related to wefwef

  • danc4498@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just want to say that r/videos was my favorite sub. I went there daily to find things to watch.

    I hope this community can replace that.

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’d suggest a no political videos rule. Also you can expect specialized communities like IdiotsInCars to appear and linking to those communities would be helpful.

  • Dazza@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This maybe a wefwef thing but most posts atm are just hyperlinks. Some have thumbnails but most don’t. It would be helpful if thumbnails always came up but again not sure if that’s related to wefwef