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?
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.
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.
Unfortunately that's not the best way to link to communities on Lemmy, when people click those links they see it through Lemmy.world your home instance.
You want to format the links like below, with an exclamation point before the community name @ the instance that the community is hosted on
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.
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.
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.