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!

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • joneskind@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Posting an embed link shouldn’t be an issue. You don’t have to host the video directly to display it on a website.

      <iframe width=“560” height=“315” src=“https://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ” title=“YouTube video player” frameborder=“0” allow=“accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” allowfullscreen></iframe>

      Lemmy just need to accept embed in comments

      • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I thought OP refers to uploading videos here directly, obviously embedding should become available soon once someone submits the PR.