nixCraft 🐧Compared to all other social media platforms, Mastodon has very few 1 mintues videos (like you see those on Insta, TikTok, X etc) in my feed or in the trending tab. It has more text based content, followed by images. Very interesting! I guess humans have always liked to read and write. There is no automated alog here just humans talking and boosting what is important to them. This is how social media should be instead of constant push of clickbait videos.
Chris [list of emoji]Videos require that you set up a camera, get the light right, get the environment quiet, film the thing, and edit it. Even with modern gear, that's still a lot more work than typing in a couple of sentences and pressing "Toot".
(And that's before we talk about attractiveness requirements.)
All of which is to say that video-centric platforms are ultimately still about a userbase that is mostly passive consumers.