How would you feel about it?
Let’s pretend lemmy just got a sick ass video hosting feature for this example.
I have no interest in short form video no matter how sick-ass. So I’d ignore it, and if that weren’t possible I’d leave.
Same, I just don’t want to watch videos of random people talking to their phone camera. It’s such a narcissistic “look at me” way to use social media that I can’t relate to it at all.
Videos are obnoxious
I would be skeptical that it wouldn’t become a dumpster fire overnight.
fair.
I’d make heavy use of the block feature. Then probably leave eventually
Oh no, oh no, oh no no no no
“I’m too old for this shit.”
“Goddamnit”
“What happened? Why does Lemmy suck now?”
My first thought would be “why can’t I load Lemmy” as they DDOSed the site
Shy of that, “good for them.” Glad they wouldn’t choose anything worse 😉
Everyone seems scared but I would be happy that such a FOSS designed project would finally be used in mass scale.
Sure content would not be the same, but the structure of lemmy would probably encourage more discussion and problem solving rather than hate induced comments or crazy mob-like behaviour.
When I talk about structure, I talk about some feature like having a downvote, not so much advertisement, the fediverse, no(or just not so much) incentive to make money from the platform, text based posts, custom front ends, etc…
Video hosting man …
“There goes the neighborhood.”
I’d probably jump ship. The dynamic that exists on TikTok is not something I have any interest in participating in. And that’s entirely putting aside the massive user privacy issues.
I’ll give it a week and they’ll be gone. Lemmy is not built for short-form content and very short attention spans, so the format won’t work for them.
I’d just hope they all join a tiktok-specific instance so it’s easy enough to filter out. But it would be nice to see a larger adoption of the fediverse (although I feel like overnight growth of that scale might rock the boat too much, it would be far more preferable to have a more gradual adoption).
My thirst thought would be “poor admins. They need to stock up on storage when all this videos are gonna be federated”.
Huh, Lemmy got video now? Interesting. Well, block that user, subscribe to this new video based community, also block this user within the community. Oh hey, this person I recognize from YouTube Shorts is here, too.
I think there would be a lot of sorting to do
