Since I keep having to remove the video posts, here’s an actual article on it:

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    2 days ago

    Simple, videos are unvetted, from unknown sources, and can contain jankey spammish monetization.

    Rather than go item by item and saying “this video is OK, this one isn’t” we have an established rule of “no videos”.

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        Well, think of it like this, all the mods are volunteers here. We have actual paying jobs outside Lemmy and, you know, “lives” and stuff.

        We don’t have the time to watch every video, read every Twitter post, or every Blogsite to go “Yeah, that’s OK” or “No, that one’s bullshit.”

        So, yeah, we set up catch all rules. No videos, no social media, no blog sites.