Video hosting is very resource-intensive, and likely still beyond the capabilities of most Instance owners. While this feature will likely appear eventually for larger Instances, we have a natural disadvantage that will slow our adoption somewhat.
We aren't a single, centralized company that can throw a huge wad of cash at the problem.
You can link to videos, but they need to be hosted on other services, such as PeerTube. Lemmy instances are relatively lightweight and don't necessarily have the storage space for very large files such as videos.
Could this be improved by Lemmy apps and the web interface by integrating a player?
Why were videos more prominent on Reddit; was it easier to upload videos to it?
I suspect the video experience can improve in the future.
Sure, go write the code!
I just might. Somebody linked the issue on GitHub!
It's more about server storage space than code, unfortunately.
Yes, true. But it does not need to be hosted on the instance. It can also be hosted somewhere else and embedded here. Problem with that approach is that itf the external video or gif goes offline, you lose the video.
The embedded thing, I think I remember that there was something like that in the code of the jerboa app or the Lemmy backend.
Video hosting is very resource-intensive, and likely still beyond the capabilities of most Instance owners. While this feature will likely appear eventually for larger Instances, we have a natural disadvantage that will slow our adoption somewhat.
We aren't a single, centralized company that can throw a huge wad of cash at the problem.
You can link to videos, but they need to be hosted on other services, such as PeerTube. Lemmy instances are relatively lightweight and don't necessarily have the storage space for very large files such as videos.
Could this be improved by Lemmy apps and the web interface by integrating a player?
Why were videos more prominent on Reddit; was it easier to upload videos to it?
I suspect the video experience can improve in the future.
Sure, go write the code!
I just might. Somebody linked the issue on GitHub!
It's more about server storage space than code, unfortunately.
Yes, true. But it does not need to be hosted on the instance. It can also be hosted somewhere else and embedded here. Problem with that approach is that itf the external video or gif goes offline, you lose the video.
The embedded thing, I think I remember that there was something like that in the code of the jerboa app or the Lemmy backend.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/709
Thanks, this is the answer I needed.
That's a feature not a bug.
It hasn't been implemented yet, want to have a go? :) For now, link to other hosting sites.