• someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    I’m wondering if there should be a guideline about this on this comm at the very least, and maybe on hexbear in general. Some sort of requirement for a minimal description or commentary. Maybe timestamps for excessively long videos so that people can skip to the relevant part.

    I don’t want to name names, I’m not interested in drama. But there’s an awful lot posting of videos by a few very specific people who just use the original video’s title and never provide context in text form.

    • AndJusticeForAll [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      1 month ago

      I’ve thought the exact same thing. At least have the YouTube channel in the name. At least on my end there’s no thumbnail embed or anything, just a text title and the small embed thing below saying it’s a YouTube video. Not a lot to go on.

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        1 month ago

        I don’t get thumbnails at my end either. And I fully agree on requiring the Youtube channel name to be mentioned at the least. I almost never engage with this comm because I have no idea whose metrics I’m going to be contributing to. A drop in a bucket in an ocean in a water-rich solar system to be sure. But it matters to me.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      A lot of sites with YouTube embedding have rules about posting videos where you have to comment about the video and why people should watch. I don’t click any of the videos on hexbear or lemmy because I’m not going to sit down for 20 minutes to watch something by someone I don’t know.

      I don’t think people need to write more than a sentence or two and I wouldn’t expect there to be anything on stuff like music or 10 second comedy sketches. But holy hell could we use something for video essays and political commentary.