Gregory's Server@grishka first part is not true. Being close to normies and having talked to many normies, autoplay *without sound* is *expected* when you are scrolling feeds nowadays unless you enabled data/energy saving mode. Reason being: videos are *regular content* like images, posted with expectation to be muted by default, and adapted to that. Likewise for GIFs, although I'd argue that GIFs should have limit how much they can replay, because some of them are very short and annoying.
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It wastes your data and makes you do extra actions to watch the video from the beginning (if that's even possible, hi Instagram Reels on the web). Usually the thumbnail and the description are enough for you to decide whether you want to watch the video or not. Autoplaying doesn't help with that. And you still have to click or tap it to unmute it.  Thumbnails and descriptions are not a good substitute for video, especially on social media. It's along the lines of ‘I'm not reading allat’—‘I'm not describing my video or photoshopping a thumbnail’. Look at alt text use for example. > Autoplaying doesn't help with that. I guess in your experience it doesn't. In my experience, scrolling Twitter and Telegram with autoplay, it's very rare to have to expand a video, or want it be paused ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @grishka @brawaru @dansup What you are talking about is just changing the topic to some other thing from my point of view. Pixelfed is trying to be an alternative to Instagram and in doing that it HAS to take in features like this that are by default neither good or bad just handy features that make the experience better. And if we try to argue if this feature or other features are bad and that humans just rationalize bad things why are you seemingly the only one in the thread with this idea.? |
Braw :blob_cat_melt: 🏳🌈, it's this weird part of human psychology that people tend to rationalize bad things, sometimes even convincing themselves that it's actually good that it exists/happens. It goes way beyond the IT industry, there are people who genuinely oppose radical life extension, for example.
By whom? Influencers? Of course they will adapt to whatever the platform does to them and expects from them, no matter how stupid. They owe their popularity to all those algorithms and dark patterns that force-feed people content from outside of their network.
Braw :blob_cat_melt: 🏳🌈, it's this weird part of human psychology that people tend to rationalize bad things, sometimes even convincing themselves that it's actually good that it exists/happens. It goes way beyond the IT industry, there are people who genuinely oppose radical life extension, for example.