its’ relatively new in that pictrus (the hosting backend software) didn’t always support it cleanly. the trick is getting a video file small enough to be accepted by the lemmy instance. usually that means short wepm’s only.

well, whatever you do please don’t try to upload it again for lolz. If you seriously think this is happening please contact us on matrix #hexbear-dev:chapo.chat to provide a sample of this site breaking file

It always was

Thanks! hopefully we push more of these changes back up that you want soonish