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?

  • Kichae@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    If those video-heavy communities want to host their own instances and cover the cost of hosting those videos, then that would be cool.

    The thing with individual- and community-based hosting, though, is that the hidden costs of the social web become visible very quickly. Those were externalized to the VC backed vultures, and now those vultures are clamping down on us and demanding their fill.

    We paid a price for things like free video hosting. Now we’re aware of the costs and need to make conscious decisions around it, not friction free ones.

    • rimlogger@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think the community overrates how much it costs to store video. With proper compression (again, 1080p quality isn’t necessary) you can store a ton of video files. You just need to figure out the balance between quality and storage space.