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Does/Will Lemmy support videos/GIFs like Reddit?
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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2023
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I think that the main problem with hosting videos on this platform is the amount of space. Keep in mind, Lemmy runs on donations, it does not have venture capitalist backing of any kind. So even if the support for videos (or gifs) eventually comes, it will either be very restricted (i.e. max 8mb uploads, similar to Discord's free tier uploads) or disabled entirely by the instance admins because the cost for hosting video will be just way too much.
Time will tell, I guess, for now there's no video support being mentioned anywhere on GitHub issues, so it is likely not planned.
Except for porn of course, that instance already allows 25MB uploads
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Posting an embed link shouldn't be an issue. You don't have to host the video directly to display it on a website.
Lemmy just need to accept embed in comments
I thought OP refers to uploading videos here directly, obviously embedding should become available soon once someone submits the PR.
At least in kbin, if you link a video on a site that allows embedding it includes a handy little button to show the embedded video automagically. Not sure how it's handled in Lemmy though. :)
Thanks for the in depth reply! Are there better alternatives than imgur?
catbox.moe is great and embeds into Lemmy, unlike redgifs
That's the answer i was looking for!
I second this. They also have litterbox.catbox.moe for disappearing links.
So the writing's on the wall: Imgur will sooner or later intensify its enshitification, so it's not safe relying on it for image/gif uploads for Lemmy...