social

First class video support is a must have for any social app today. You can see that in the convergence on short videos in every large social app today

I suspect it’s because text-centric apps don’t facilitate as much virality as video-centric ones? Text does serve communities better though e.g. Reddit/facebook

yeah tbh I'm actually excited about it too, its just been a long time coming (lots of great artists and creators churned due to lack of posting video due to feature flags)

hopefully they come back!

I don’t think video content is dumbed down. Feels like there’s more to the equation

I have a hunch that video is more monetisable so the medium attracts more entertaining creators and hence attracts more users

video also has a lot more information bandwidth than text and images.

no reason they can't compliment each other

a video that is good content would only be bolstered by text adding context and vice versa

reddit would probs excel at this if the community was decent

videos provide higher context and are thus easier to digest

people are dumb and lazy

Some things are better explained through video.