I was just realizing that I pretty much never click a link to a video post on Lemmy. I think my reasoning is that it’s too hard to skim a video to see if it’s worth my time, whereas an article can be evaluated initially in a few seconds.
Which kind of links do you engage with more often?
Edit: If you are a small YouTube content creator and it looks like nobody wants to click on videos, consider creating a text version of your video which, granted, is a separate skill, but if you have a message to get out and want to reach people…
more likely to click text
+1 text. Very rarely on video links and almost never on Youtube links.
I feel this. I want to support PeerTube/similar — can you recommend one where I can re-upload the YouTube videos I want to preserve? Is that okay to do? Or are those tube sites more for original content?
Again (echoing my top-level comment), I run a music comm on my instance. Not linking because I don’t want to shill for it, but it can’t be too hard to find. I’m wondering if I could (or should‽) use PeerTube/similar to copy/reupload the YouTube videos (because we’re on Lemmy and we’re not supposed to like YouTube, and I really don’t) and then update the links. I actually have a handful of videos YouTube has taken down and I would love to be able to link them. Is that appropriate to ask?