I wanted to pick a name that’s generic and not specific to any particular platform. For example, !microblogmemes@lemmy.world instead of !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
I don’t see a community for that yet, aside from !loops@midwest.social, 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).
FediShorts ?
!gifs@lemmy.world is basically the same as short form videos.
Good point
VideoHaikus
Reddit had YouTubeHaikus, which were short (often less than 15 second) videos. If you’re focused on short-form videos, then “haiku” at least expresses that.
repeatme
lilvids
I think this is the best name. We need to have more funny community names.
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.
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.
shortvids
Clips?
c/vine
YouTokGram
Perhaps MiniVids?
Vine
!ShortFormVideosworks, but it feels a bit technical and sterile?!ShortFormSharescould also workJust ShortForm
Shorts
brief
inbrief
brevi (abbreviated)
terse terrse
crisp qrisp
Length limit? inb8 inb120
Infinivid
vidlem
Subsidiary question, how do you share videos, is it possible on Lemmy now?
I can’t share images bigger than 2MB 😰
That is an instance specific limitation.
Yeah I know, but it also seems to be a pictrs limitation, I have fiddled around a bit without success on my instance.
Post them to another host (realisticly, probably YouTube) and then post the link to that.
Well that won’t show up as a video on Lemmy or will it?
Depends of the interface. Mp4 show up correctly on the Web UI
If you post the file to somewhere you can directly link to it (I.E. wvvw.notawebsite.com/file.mp4) it will show up as one. That said, I don’t know of any hosts who allow sharing of Video content this way. Some clients also embed YouTube properly, and I wouldn’t be suprised if PeerTube worked too, but I have yet to see anyone directly try and post PeerTube content.
Catbox.moe
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?
There is just a link.
Edit: I’m using Connect.
