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[-] mox 22 points 9 hours ago

If you wanted to participate in this forum, you could have at least outlined your thoughts here, in text.

Posts like this one categorically earn a downvote from me, for treating us like a click farm.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

We're all different and enjoy different things. How about congratulating someone for making some content on a topic they care about.

[-] m_f@midwest.social 1 points 8 hours ago

Not trying to treat anyone like a click farm, I get no benefit from any clicks. I thought the video was a good introduction to GOG for anyone that hadn't heard of it, but as another comment pointed out, it's pretty likely that everyone in this community has heard of GOG at this point, so it's probably more preaching to the choir.

[-] mox 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

It's not about whether you benefit from clicks; it's about how the post affects the community.

Unlike a text post, a bare link to a video cannot be quickly assessed by readers to determine what lies inside. Instead, it demands that they follow the link to some other site and sit through at least part of the video, before they know whether it contains anything of value to them. Multiply that by the roughly 32 thousand members of this community, plus uncounted others who browse without subscribing, and it equals an enormous waste of other people's time.

I think it's fine to post a video that's likely to interest or inform people, especially if it shows something better than can be expressed in text. But in future, I hope you'll include at least a summary of the content, and ideally something worthy of conversation: your insights, criticisms, questions, or other thoughts on the subject. That way, the post would have a good chance of reaching the people to whom it matters while respecting everyone else's time, and be a decent contribution to the community rather than low-effort noise.

For what it's worth, I agree that GOG is good. :)

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It’s good to see clips from Loops as the Fediverse is trying to get their competitor to TikTok and whatever the other competitors from Facebook and YouTube are called. Loops can be a good thing but it’s still very nascent, so I appreciate OP making posts for Loops content to try to inform others and spread awareness. But I’d rather see an occasional cat video or something, as on Lemmy I prefer reading over watching stuff. I’m not the target audience for short form videos.

The short clip summarises the About page of GOG. https://www.gog.com/about_gog

Cool to spread awareness for people that are on those platforms and enjoy swiping through short videos. But here? Nah we’re okay. Plus I speculate the majority on Lemmy knows the value of GOG compared to more public places like Reddit.

[-] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 9 points 7 hours ago

A reminder that Loops has a TOS that effectively grants them an unlimited license to use your likeness for whatever purpose they desire. Including AI generation. https://loops.video/legal/terms-of-service#7

[-] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

wow, now im verry happy that the webpage is a broken mess abd unable to upload Videos. Looks like im setting up WordPress with ActivityPub and host my stuff myself

[-] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Oof I never read that. Well that’s disappointing.

[-] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 3 points 6 hours ago

It is.....I would like a Fediverse video platform, but this one ain't very cash money.

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Seriously, wtf is that terms and conditions. Good find and good share.

Super upsetting.

Any speculation on why that's in there?

[-] m_f@midwest.social 3 points 8 hours ago

Good points, still getting the hang of what communities are into the loops content format. And yeah, just trying to spread awareness of Loops to people that like the format, since it'll help the Fediverse grow.

[-] Boinkage@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

Silence, empty social media fluff.

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