Any future plans on developing lemmy video upload support?

  • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m going to guess no. Video would exponentially increase the bandwidth and data storage requirements of instances when these instances already can barely handle their user load and static images being uploaded.

    Use an external hosting service as much as you can. Linking directly to something actually designed to distribute the load, like PeerTube, is vastly more efficient than expecting Lemmy instances to handle it.

    • NicestDicerest@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Sounds reasonable. Maybe there is a way to embedd the peertube-player directly into lemmy? I mean i’m aware that there are issues which are more important right now, but maybe in the future. But i think this is actually something that may hold a lot of people back from using Lemmy

      • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
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        1 year ago

        Yeah, better embed support would go a long way to keeping the load off Lemmy but still supporting additional content. On Desktop it’s not a big deal to just shift-click videos into a new tab, but on mobile it’s slow and I usually lose my spot when I leave the lemmy tab… I’m sure they’ll get to it soon enough.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    It’s already supported, but disabled by default (for good reasons).