I’m trying to build a sublemmy (BeWowed) based on r/Damnthat’s intresting and r/BeAmazed material that I have accumulated over the years but i need to host all the videos on imgur. Will lemmy be able to host videos? Do you have better alternatives than imgur? Thanks!
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- 3 years
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.
- Labor Class@lemmy.worldEnglish15 days
Upload to PeerTube and share the url. it automatically review in lemmy
- 3 years
It adds a lot of server space and traffic requirements so it’s probably better hosted externally.
- zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish3 years
I’ve completely forgotten what it is, but I remember reading in a comment a few days ago that there is something meant to replace Youtube in the fediverse. If that’s true, then it might be interesting to add a way to automatically upload videos to that from the lemmy submission page.
