Looks like this is an opt-in, supplemental crop mode, for streamers who have stuff that would work well for vertical orientations. Talking head stuff, live solo-artist music, etc.

The existing content experience is still there, but if you’re standing on the subway, and you’re watching a streamer react to a press release about a game, you can turn your phone and watch them babble in landscape while you hold the poll.

Mobile users are a cancer.

Are you really using Lemmy from a desktop? You sat in front of some high powered PC and THIS was the best thing you could find to do?

Sincerely,
Guy on a toilet

Typical mobile brain. You've really been pavlov'd into thinking you can only do a single thing at a time.

I'll just leave this video guide here to cure world of this cancer

I use Lemmy from my phone and desktop at the same time. That's how I appear to be everywhere at once.

I'll just leave this video guide here to cure world of this cancer

~~https://youtu.be/xL23Xvv1Pis~~

429 Too Many Requests

(yewtu.be)

Fixed that for you.

Weird, both links work for me

Yewtube Is a third party front end for YouTube using Invidious, more private, no ads and if you pair it with Freetube you can even skip in video advertisements/sponsors.

Oh, yeah, that makes sense. I kinda assumed they already supported it, like YouTube Shorts adopting the vertical format for shorts after Ticktock blew up.