Post #1922867

2024-09-04 07:53 UTC

@holothuroid honestly for me the most common would be v;dw — video, didn't watch. Could also be v;cr — video, can't read. Sick of people sharing a video explanation of something, rather than just telling.

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@jks@kamu.social 2024-09-06 03:24

@Setok @holothuroid I've been using tv;dw (too video; didn't watch) to stay in the four-character format. I blame the Google Wave product launch in ca. 2009 which insinuated that you can't understand the product by reading alone, you had to watch the video. (Not even the video helped people get it.)

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@stepan@f.cz 2024-09-13 12:00

@Setok @holothuroid I think you should read this thread from one of the best YouTubers I know, who also almost quit fedi because of "v;dw" people: https://mas.to/@TechConnectify/113007851768929530 If you for some reason don't want to watch a video that somebody put effort in, and somebody else shared that work with you instead of rewriting it as text, you might just not watch it. Don't have to announce it to everybody.

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@Setok@attractive.space 2025-07-20 08:04

@holothuroid it’s funny how #Mastodon works sometimes, with this post, which is almost a year old, having been recently rediscovered somehow and now getting daily reactions again :) I do that myself too, where I somehow bump into a post which I like that is many moons old, and happily then boost it onwards. Also makes me wonder what a sensible post lifetime should be on an instance, or if posts should essentially be ‘forever’?

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