Even more so yes, the purpose is largely for impaired/disabled users that can’t see the fuckin thing and thus have the description read out. Of course abled users also get value out of it.
Probably due to the average age of a lot of people on Lemmy. I’ve found that a lot of people who are middle aged or older have a preference for text over video.
I’m not old, I just don’t want dig though 20 minutes of “content” to watch a 3 second clip. It’s like SEO filler at this point. I’m here to doom scroll, not watch videos. A video feels like hitting a speed bump.
I suspect it’s some social justice posing bullshit in the name of blind people, but I like it because it’s broken the stranglehold that the “hey instead of reading a 30 second article let’s watch a 10 minute video loaded with ads!” mentality has on gen z.
If you post a link to a video, include a plaintext summary.
Even if it’s a comedy skit that’s all visual gags?
Yes! In that case the summary might be “comedy skit featuring mostly visual gags”.
It’s not funny if you don’t put “link to annoying Rick Astley video” in the link description
Even more so yes, the purpose is largely for impaired/disabled users that can’t see the fuckin thing and thus have the description read out. Of course abled users also get value out of it.
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so how would I describe this?
Why are plaintext summaries so popular on lemmy?
Because we’re more conscientious? Because we’re more tech-savvy? Because we’re more suspicious of links?
IDK but I appreciate it
Because i almost exclusively look at lemmy on the bus where i cant watch a video w/o my mobile data goig Bye-Bye
exactafuckinlutely
Probably due to the average age of a lot of people on Lemmy. I’ve found that a lot of people who are middle aged or older have a preference for text over video.
I’m not old, I just don’t want dig though 20 minutes of “content” to watch a 3 second clip. It’s like SEO filler at this point. I’m here to doom scroll, not watch videos. A video feels like hitting a speed bump.
Interesting, I assumed the average age was younger here.
I wonder.
Also, I noticed text on a lot of videos on tiktok, and that skews young, right? like vine never had subtitles, but that was a lot of young people too.
Maybe the culture is just changing, a lot of other countries use subtitles for everything.
It’s not subtitles, it’s text instead of video.
As an “older” person, I much prefer one or two paragraphs I can skim in 30 seconds to a 5-10 minute video that is 95% fluff…
I like articles too, but they aren’t talking about articles right?
They’re just talking about a text description of a meme?
The original poster is talking about videos in general not memes.
The other thread was asking about memes.
Thanks
I suspect it’s some social justice posing bullshit in the name of blind people, but I like it because it’s broken the stranglehold that the “hey instead of reading a 30 second article let’s watch a 10 minute video loaded with ads!” mentality has on gen z.
Heaven forbid those woke ass blind people be able to enjoy life the same as people with full vision!
Also, it’s a text description of a video. How tf does that help blind people more than just watching the video?
Text readers are more accurate than video interpreters. Blind people use the internet by having bots read text out loud to them.