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When will video support be added to Lemmy?
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You can link to videos if you want. I don't think that lemmy or kbin instances will likely provide free hosting for them, though.
There is a Fediverse service that provides video hosting, PeerTube.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube
I'm skeptical that it will scale -- it costs to host video -- but it's there. You can host something on any PeerTube host willing to serve your content and link to it from the Threadiverse, same as you could on YouTube.
https://joinpeertube.org/
EDIT: For a list of nearby instances:
https://peertube.fediverse.observer/
I would like to add that we are talking primarily about the ability to insert a direct link with a video located on a third-party service. To do this, you need to display previews/thumbnails, which are not available now.
I may be wrong, but I don't think it will require a lot of additional resources.
For the scaling, isn't that mostly for those high availability / high demand content creators?
I mean, for me, Lemmy is a place where you interact, create, discuss. Not a platform where a select few have millions of "followers"?
So I think that bandwidth cost can be not that high for "enthusiast" servers.
Also, say you post a crazy viral video on my poor server, well people could(I know it doesn't work that way automatically today) re-post it elsewhere because they like it and see that it's just not available on my lil server because the hug of death.
Maybe information wants to be free, and if we share things on the internet, we shouldn't think we had a right to control it any more. I mean is there a law against to create something being inspired by something else?
A bit like when you say something interesting to someone, and they repeat it to their friends, and they do the same and so on.
Sorry about the rant, it's just a rant, not anything against you!, thanks for the information you provide.
I'll try hosting video on my ~700Mb up line (IIRC) to see how it works if I get the howtos.
Cheers Lemmings :-)
It looks like that if you set up a lemmy instance, there's an upload size cap for things that people can attach.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3349
If you set that to some insane number, I imagine that people can upload large stuff, and as I note below, at least webm files seem to be doable right now on lemmy.world (just that the lemmy.world size cap is going to keep someone from uploading anything of meaningful size). I'd imagine that if you lift that cap to whatever you want -- if you want full-length movies, then probably a couple of gigabytes -- the users of your instance should be able to upload. They'd click on "image" rather than "movie", but...shrugs
The Lemmy Web UI isn't really designed for huge uploads, doesn't show a progress bar, so it's probably not going to provide the best user experience, but I'd expect that it'll work.
If you don't want to run a lemmy instance, but do want to permit people to just anonymously upload files that they can link to on other lemmy instances, then while I don't have a particular example ready to hand, I'm sure that there are no shortage of web-based "dropbox" systems that let one upload and then serve files. Just have people reference the file's URL the way they would anything else.
If you want to run a PeerTube instance, which is aimed at fediverse video sharing, then I'd look at their docs. I've never set one up, but I'm sure that they have some kind of documentation.