On the old site, there were a number of funny video communities with regular posts, for example /r/Unexpected, /r/PublicFreakout, or /r/WhatCouldGoWrong. While there are plenty of memes on Lemmy, we have relatively little video content. Those of you who used to frequent video subs, what have you replaced them with since coming to Lemmy?

  • @bauhaus@lemmy.ml
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    11610 months ago

    I got to tell you, I don’t really miss those subs. I don’t think they are good for people. 

    • mrbubblesort
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      4910 months ago

      Agreed. I had to unsubscribe from a lot of them when I realized it was becoming my “daily two minutes of hate”

    • RandomStickman
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      2710 months ago

      OP just made me realise that I haven’t seen such videos in a little while and honestly I agree with you. I’m better without.

    • BruceTwarzen
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      1410 months ago

      For real, it reads like satire. This is the shit you are missing?

      • TheHalc
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        110 months ago

        Different strokes for different folks, I suppose. It’s the diversity that make social platforms interesting, even if some of it isn’t interesting for me.

        That’s why we can choose which communities we join on the Fediverse.

    • @TurboLagOP
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      5110 months ago

      The communities I’m talking about were dedicated to video. If you didn’t like such videos, you’d never subscribe to them. I’m not talking about videos posted to otherwise text-based communities.

  • VitaMan
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    1110 months ago

    Others I liked is r/holdmybeer, r/thatlookedexpensive, and r/instantregret

    • @TurboLagOP
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      210 months ago

      How do you find videos that fit a specific category, like “What Could Go Wrong”?

  • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1010 months ago

    Youtube for interesting videos and I don’t really watch shortform stuff. You could try tiktok.

    • @Ricaz@lemmy.ml
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      110 months ago

      YouTube has Shorts. Mine is mostly cute parrots and dog grooming videos though

      • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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        110 months ago

        youtube shorts are mostly youtube videos cut down where as tiktok has a lot of original content. I dont use tiktok though

  • @Reil@beehaw.org
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    A good number of those subreddits became breeding grounds for not-so-subtle racist dogwhistling, so I don’t really miss them.

    A lot of the others sort of ran through the actually good, viable content before expanding to being less good (/r/YoutubeHaiku basically dropping the ‘unscripted’ requirement and becoming essentially, short-form skits and streamer clips). I tend to follow people with content I like directly on TikTok and Youtube these days. Aggregators of content tend to go either generic or toxic, I find.

    • SeaJ
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      310 months ago

      r/Public Freakout banned a ton of racist users who then got together and made r/ActualPublicFreakouts which was basically Nazi shit.

    • @TurboLagOP
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      410 months ago

      That’s also the only one I know of, and unfortunately there’s only a post every other day.

  • @Thurgo@lemm.ee
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    710 months ago

    Not having access to publicfreakouts here has probably improved my health. One community I wish was stronger here is idiotsincars. The only subreddits I still read are askcarsales, justrolledintotheshop, and idiotsincars because I do not see them moving to a different platform anytime soon. I don’t mind them being on reddit because they are good communities. Kind of stinks though because I don’t participate there anymore. I still check them once or twice a day like I am trying to do with Lemmy to reduce my exposure to bullshit.

    • @TurboLagOP
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      110 months ago

      Yep, idioiotsincars is one that I miss, too!

      • TheLemming
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        210 months ago

        I don’t miss the toxicity of the comments of that community though. I just went there to watch cars drivers doing entertaining stuff

  • @SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca
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    510 months ago

    The only subreddit I miss is combatfootage, and we already have communities that fill that niche, albeit no where near as active

  • @XPost3000@lemmy.ml
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    410 months ago

    Honestly FixedByTheDuet was my personal favorite, I miss it but I’m willing to make the sacrifice to stay away from reddit and keep using Infinity

    • @sure@lemmy.ml
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      210 months ago

      Couldn’t agree more! That sub had some hilarious videos, I pray that one day we get a similar one here.

      • @XPost3000@lemmy.ml
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        110 months ago

        Man giga same, I have so many vids from there downloaded to my current phone and old phone, it’s insane

  • Zeusbottom
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    410 months ago

    I found PF and WCGW to be not at all funny and more rage-inducing. They certainly deepened my misanthropy. I never subbed to those, but crossposts made it to r/facepalm now and then. I don’t miss having my outrage muscle exercised like that.

  • @willya@lemmyf.uk
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    310 months ago

    Since launching one of my own it’s surprising to me how hard content is to come by with the more niche type of stuff. It will naturally happen as more people contribute. Seems we have substantially more lurkers that were willing to relocate rather than posters.