The ability to upload video clips that’s coming in Lemmy 0.2 will bring more activity to Lemmy
The ability to upload video clips that’s coming in Lemmy 0.2 will bring more activity to Lemmy
I noticed the new betas have the ability to upload video clips. I think this has been a huge missing feature that Reddit and other social media platforms have
This could kill off smaller instances since they don't have the ressources to support that much data. The biggest german instance already has problems because they exceeded their server capacity if I remember correctly. Are there any mechanisms to stop that from happening?
Not a big issue IMO, admins can disable video uploads or have a small upload size limit (<1MB) and people will find a way.
Just turn off video uploads in the db? They’re already off by default, so you can activate them now if you want.
Yeah, the news made me wince. We're only a medium-sized instance but our image folder is already large and unwieldy. Throwing in video would bloat it quickly.
I can't see (m)any instances going with this or they'd need terabytes of storage.
I recommend always using things like imgur as a host for Pictures and Videos. Your admins will thank ya!
because they exceeded their server capacity if I remember correctly. Are there any mechanisms to stop that from happening?
Object storage
Do you think so? I usually use gifs from catbox.moe, it's pretty reliable as a hosting platform, I'm not sure having videos uploaded directly to Lemmy would be that much of a change
Do you use Lemmy on an app? I’ve never gotten gifs or short clips to work but I use the default web UI. Will be nice when it works embedded by default
You can embed external video now, allowing video uploading directly is just for the sake of convenience.
I use the web UI as well. Doesn't this work for you? https://reddthat.com/post/17937082
Oh god no, I hate videos. Hope there will be a killswitch in the settings.
I hate videos
I disagree with you, but I think you are being unfairly downvoted.
Hope there will be a killswitch in the settings.
Giving users more control to filter the types of content they see is almost always a good feature.
With hating videos I mean low-effort spammy crap. It's a decent format to explain certain technical aspects, but nowadays for every one good video, there's 20 bad ones, and I'd rather not have my feed flooded with crap.
If I want to watch stuff, I'll go to youtube or other platform. Lemmy is just a totally different use case for me, and I'd prefer to keep the two separated.
Just like I can't understand how people are using Lemmy for porn, but I guess from the sheer amount posted, there must be an audience. So I just hope I can fully opt out.
I'm torn on video support, but it's your typical I'm going to use it right, but I don't trust the masses to. 😅
I'd hate to see groups get filled up with posts that are nothing but a link to a video, but with me doing animal behavior and rehab, it can be hard to show some things with stills. Things like raptor hunting techniques and biomechanics need to be seen.
I'm all for having it not auto play or any of that annoying stuff though.
Right, I can see the appeal for some special purposes, but to be honest, external links to videos did just fine so far - and makes it easy for those of us who can't be bothered to simply block youtube.com and youtu.be as external domains, and done.
If videos make up the post itself, I can see my frontpage flooded with stuff I don't care to see.
And just for the record, I don't hate videos per se, I just think it's opening up the platform for very low effort posts. If you're writing an article about a highly technical topic and then link a video to visualize it, great. But if there's just a headline and a video, I might as well not be bothered at all.
Oh wow, when is it estimated to release?