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I wanted to pick a name that's generic and not specific to any particular platform. For example, [email protected] instead of [email protected]

I don't see a community for that yet, aside from [email protected], which is specific to Loops.

Some sources of the content could be:

  • Fediverse Loops
  • Tiktok
  • Instagram Reels
  • YouTube Shorts

The sidebar could include guides on how to link to the content in a more accessible way (ex. alternate front-ends or re-posting).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I was of the same opinion up until the reddit API ban. Then I had a period of not having what to do while on the toilet. Leaving alone at the time video sound was not a problem and I gravitated to yt shorts for some doom scrolling whilst pooping. Now I see the appeal and usefulness since so much time people spend on the phone instead of a TV or monitor. But as usual people abuse it, long vertical videos or landscape videos cropped or resized are terrible.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think this is the best name. We need to have more funny community names.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It might be better as a display name than a community name. I only say that because as much as I like funny community names, they can unintentionally reduce and obfuscate community's visibility and purpose to newcomers.

If one wants it to be easily found, arguably the best community names may be either shorts or clips, followed possibly by shortvids. The display name however can be as playful as one might want, as I think frontends/apps rely on the community name when searching over the display name.

Now for the worst name, in either respect, you might make it microvlogmemes, or microvlogs, neither of which I think I've ever seen or heard anyone use anywhere. I can't even remember the last time I heard or read anyone else mention a vlog, so yeah, may be technically accurate but awful otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

New rapper name

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Subsidiary question, how do you share videos, is it possible on Lemmy now?

I can't share images bigger than 2MB 😰

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Post them to another host (realisticly, probably YouTube) and then post the link to that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well that won't show up as a video on Lemmy or will it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On desktop, if you link to an mp4 file hosted somewhere, it embeds the video in the post, just as a picture would be embedded.

Example: https://lemmy.world/post/23008472

How does this post appear to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There is just a link.

Edit: I'm using Connect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Perhaps MiniVids?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

!ShortFormVideos works, but it feels a bit technical and sterile?

!ShortFormShares could also work

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

!ShortFormVideos is what I instantly thought. !ShortFormShares feels less formal. As an idiot, I might click thinking you are talking about the stock market, but once I saw a bunch of videos in the community it would be obvious to me what it's about

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