I was trying to post a video but it wouldn’t show up as available to upload in Jerboa, is this a per community thing or is it across all of lemmy? It would make sense because videos are inherently a larger file size, if that is the reason

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝English
      4•2 months ago

      Yep, I used catbox to embed this video.

      From an instance Admin perspective - image hosting eats up a tonne of space, allowing video would be a much bigger undertaking. Even Peertube instances tend to restrict user numbers and the amount they can upload.

  • @[email protected]English
    11•2 months ago

    Don’t know but I wouldn’t recommend it. Your instance may have them disabled because they are expensive to host. You can host them on Streamable for free and without an account but they expire after 3 days. Create an account and I think you get 90 days. 250mb max.

  • poVoqEnglish
    10•2 months ago

    The pict-rs backend can be configured to allow it, but it is AFAIK disabled by default and would also be a problem storage wise most likely.

  • Mr.MofuEnglish
    5•2 months ago

    If there is one thing thats comically inconsistent and in desperate need of work done to it, it be GIFs and Videos. It seems with everything uploaded you get a different result. We really need some standartification when it comes to it

    • @[email protected]English
      8•2 months ago

      Because this means creating yet another account at a service who is probably not ready to bear the costs of becoming a video hosting provider?

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 months ago

      idt pixelfed should be used as an imagehost. there are many services for that and it will only make pixelfed worse if people use it for that purpose.

  • Dariusmiles2123English
    3•2 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be possible to create a Lemmy instance on Peertube (linked to our Lemmy accounts) just for this reason?

    I know the videos would take a large space, but as peertube is a video platform, it wouldn’t be such a problem I guess.