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?
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I got to tell you, I don’t really miss those subs. I don’t think they are good for people. 
Agreed. I had to unsubscribe from a lot of them when I realized it was becoming my “daily two minutes of hate”
“daily two minutes of hate”
Dang, you’re right.
Wow I never realized that’s where we are. Except Orwell underestimated the length.
I agree a lot with what Orwell said in he’s book, but actually I think Huxley hit a little closer to home on this point. I’m sure you’ve seen this before, yeah?
https://biblioklept.org/2013/06/08/huxley-vs-orwell-the-webcomic-2/
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.
r/Public Freakout banned a ton of racist users who then got together and made r/ActualPublicFreakouts which was basically Nazi shit.
Man, the main virtue of lemmy is the lack of intrusive videos and images.
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.
Yep, idioiotsincars is one that I miss, too!
I don’t miss the toxicity of the comments of that community though. I just went there to watch
carsdrivers doing entertaining stuff
I’m wondering the same. Also why isn’t anyone posting gfycat links?
!whatcouldgowrong@lemm.ee is fairly active. Not sure about replacements for the others though.
That’s also the only one I know of, and unfortunately there’s only a post every other day.
Youtube for interesting videos and I don’t really watch shortform stuff. You could try tiktok.
YouTube has Shorts. Mine is mostly cute parrots and dog grooming videos though
