I feel like its what ruined the reddit nsfw community, but a lot of people probably like the current version, and ppl horny posting for fun like gone wild was supposed to be is probably dead. Everythings an ad, at least if its only in the profile the illusion is still there that they do this because they enjoy it and not for capitalism and survival lol.
We’ve seen that Lemmy allows direct video uploads, but as someone that works in tech I’m aware that would be an economical burden to the admins and whoever is paying for the server (and its storage). So we prefer to upload things to Redgifs to help and post using links. We record short videos anyways and if they’re too long for Redgifs, well, we split them in as many parts as we can, and that means more posts. Win-win. We totally do it for fun tho