I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.
Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?
I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.
Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?
Ironically, reddit did just fine without hosting videos for… Well, like ten years.
But if Lemmy is going to be a serious Reddit replacement, it’s going to need to be able to host videos as well.
I suspect certain video oriented communities will go elsewhere. /r/combatfootage was my only Reddit video community, so it hasn’t impacted me much.
I’m running !spacemusic@lemmy.ca now which occasionally links to YouTube videos when other sources aren’t easy to find. We will see how that goes.
Probably features will get added over time. Maybe the federated video hosting stuff will take off some day. But from a bandwidth perspective, that might be hard for these volunteer run servers to handle.
Who says Lemmy should/must/has to be a “serious Reddit replacement?”