I’ve been on nebula for a while now. A thing that I miss compared YouTube is the comment section.
It allows interaction between creators and viewers as well as amongst viewers themselves. I love picking up details in the comments about the video I’m watching or just watched.
The idea has been floating around for over 3 years on this now declining platform. https://www.reddit.com/r/watchnebula/comments/foqjt1/nebula_comment_section/
Given that Lemmy is decentralized, I can totally see the Nebula team integrating comments through a Lemmy instance.
What do do you all think?
I imagine not many creators are terribly keen on the task of moderating such a system. Even if the amount of assholes is reduced by having to pay for it, it may still be nonzero. I can also imagine it to be a liability issue.
Plus there’s no need for it.
Nothing stops you from discussing their videos with the community on any platform. Those who have access will be able to use the link. The YouTube crowd can join in once it’s up there, but most will probably stay on YouTube.
I think comments would be a huge value add. Patreon already has them, the pay wall really seperates out most toxicity.
Even if it was opt in by creator, community building tools for the less technical Nebula creators could be a major selling point to get more similar brand creators to join.
I’d be okay if was even simply unfederated comments (or microblogging), which would likely be better for the creator, but I’d love threadiverse communities for more creators.
Great idea! Considering the state of their app I don’t see them having the time and resources to have tight integration within the app, but even just an automatic post for each video and a link in the description would be great.
Well. In that case, I’d leave it up to the creators to enable / disable comments on their videos.
I think they said they see no need for comments on Nebula for the time being