When will video support be added to Lemmy? (lemmy.today)

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As you know, web instances don't display video. Perhaps there is information on when full video support is planned?

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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/

[-] Slow@lemmy.today 9 points 11 months ago

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.

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