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!

  • deejay4am@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    1 year ago

    I think that many people underestimate what it takes to host videos on the internet.

    That being said, isn’t there a federated, distributed video hosting network on the fediverse? Maybe it would be better to just embed links from that.

    • WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Well there’s PeerTube, but it’s just like the old YouTube with fewer features. Can’t do Shorts, can’t get embedded iframe plays for now

      • i_do_not_agree@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Does it Play YouTube video or it is another YouTube with it’s own videos? Because i need YouTube but i hate reels shorts and don’t want them

        • WolfhoundRO@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          It’s another YouTube with its own. There is also what you need and it’s called Piped. It’s an open-source YouTube video player on which you don’t need Google account

  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    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.

  • cccc@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    It adds a lot of server space and traffic requirements so it’s probably better hosted externally.

    • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.