Whew, boy, that escalated quickly 🤣
Videos can* provide better privacy explanations (ex: animating asymmetric key exchange) The videos that get posted on here, well…
How about banning video essays?
This. It depends on the source. Always consider the source.
Even a video essay can be credible, if they cite their sources
More than posting their own channels or doing it on an anti-privacy website, I am annoyed by the medium itself. Even if it’s a topic of interest, videos can become really tedious depending on the author with no practical way to get around it, plus very little accessibility; it’s always more convenient in text.
Some would argue it’s more accessible in video format. Personally I think it’s best to write an article and then do a breif video summary that links to the article “for more info”
The only reason advertising was banned on reddit was so they could monetize. If the content is relevant to the community, I don’t care if the person sharing it created it. I appreciate the submission.
Let the votes decide the quality of the content.
I don’t really care if someone shares their own content as a participating member of the community, but these people are dwarfed by those who just spam their links to every community on Lemmy that bares even the slightest amount of relevance.
You dont know that tho. I have multiple lemmmy accounts. Most if them are anonymous, but when I post my own content, I use my real name.
The only thing I use my “real name” Lemmy account for is self - promotion, but that doesn’t mean I dont participate with other accounts.
Folks have the right to anonymity.
Why would you run, for example, a programming based YouTube channel, but not want to use that same account when interacting with the community on topics of programming? You have a right to anonymity, but people also have the right to block you if you only use that account to spam links in different communities with no other engagement because there’s nothing to differentiate you from all the bots doing the same thing for different reasons.
My point is you shouldn’t make assumptions. Just because you can’t track all of my activity doesn’t mean I’m a bot.
Federation abuse allows for easy vote brigading and manipulation. For the past 2 weeks, I have been a victim of targeted vote manipulation. In the earlier days of Lemmy and after Reddit exodus, bot voting manipulation in hundreds and thousands was observed, with one even demonstrating this intentionally with a top Lemmy post.
Votes are not a priority factor.
“Let the votes decide the quality of the content” is capitalist rhetoric that was the start of reddit’s end. It is not an argument, it is not a principle to stand behind, and it most definitely is not a better alternative to guidelines the community can vote on.
Someone gets it.
Looks like I was missing in action, because Indians celebrate Diwali today, our biggest festival of the year. This is why I formulated rules against advertising, because this happens too often here. Will be on the lookout and more stricter. Some custom AOSP forks advertised and astroturfed will also face stricter action. A solid framework needs to be built.
I was considering blocking all posts containing youtube links. No-one wants some opionated arse-monger broadcasting to them in bed.
There are folks on YouTube that cite their sources. Don’t ban the platform just because many of the uses suck.
