Mr_Mofu ,
@Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Oh wow, when is it estimated to release?

grue ,

Will it be federated with PeerTube in some way?

Blaze ,
@Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

We are already federated with Peertube, sometimes the synchronization is a bit tricky

grue ,

Will video posts on Lemmy be able to be viewed using PeerTube as an interface?

Blaze ,
@Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Ah, I see what you mean. I thought you meant that PeerTube content could be followed from Lemmy, which is already the case.

About your question, I don't know.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Oh god no, I hate videos. Hope there will be a killswitch in the settings.

threelonmusketeers Mod ,

I hate videos

I disagree with you, but I think you are being unfairly downvoted.

Hope there will be a killswitch in the settings.

Giving users more control to filter the types of content they see is almost always a good feature.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

With hating videos I mean low-effort spammy crap. It's a decent format to explain certain technical aspects, but nowadays for every one good video, there's 20 bad ones, and I'd rather not have my feed flooded with crap.

If I want to watch stuff, I'll go to youtube or other platform. Lemmy is just a totally different use case for me, and I'd prefer to keep the two separated.

Just like I can't understand how people are using Lemmy for porn, but I guess from the sheer amount posted, there must be an audience. So I just hope I can fully opt out.

anon6789 ,
@anon6789@lemmy.world avatar

I'm torn on video support, but it's your typical I'm going to use it right, but I don't trust the masses to. 😅

I'd hate to see groups get filled up with posts that are nothing but a link to a video, but with me doing animal behavior and rehab, it can be hard to show some things with stills. Things like raptor hunting techniques and biomechanics need to be seen.

I'm all for having it not auto play or any of that annoying stuff though.

viking ,
@viking@infosec.pub avatar

Right, I can see the appeal for some special purposes, but to be honest, external links to videos did just fine so far - and makes it easy for those of us who can't be bothered to simply block youtube.com and youtu.be as external domains, and done.

If videos make up the post itself, I can see my frontpage flooded with stuff I don't care to see.

And just for the record, I don't hate videos per se, I just think it's opening up the platform for very low effort posts. If you're writing an article about a highly technical topic and then link a video to visualize it, great. But if there's just a headline and a video, I might as well not be bothered at all.

anon6789 ,
@anon6789@lemmy.world avatar

I suppose the low effort posts are the real problem. I didn't know if it's any better or worse if it's a picture or a video.

Inserting the thumbnail automatically along with the link would suit me fine, rather than Lemmy doing anything native with the video.

I dunno, you may have won me over on this!

De_Narm ,

This could kill off smaller instances since they don't have the ressources to support that much data. The biggest german instance already has problems because they exceeded their server capacity if I remember correctly. Are there any mechanisms to stop that from happening?

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works avatar

Just turn off video uploads in the db? They’re already off by default, so you can activate them now if you want.

aeharding ,
@aeharding@vger.social avatar

because they exceeded their server capacity if I remember correctly. Are there any mechanisms to stop that from happening?

Object storage

Emperor ,
@Emperor@feddit.uk avatar

Yeah, the news made me wince. We're only a medium-sized instance but our image folder is already large and unwieldy. Throwing in video would bloat it quickly.

I can't see (m)any instances going with this or they'd need terabytes of storage.

Mr_Mofu ,
@Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I recommend always using things like imgur as a host for Pictures and Videos. Your admins will thank ya!

simple ,
@simple@lemm.ee avatar

Not a big issue IMO, admins can disable video uploads or have a small upload size limit (<1MB) and people will find a way.

Blaze ,
@Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Do you think so? I usually use gifs from catbox.moe, it's pretty reliable as a hosting platform, I'm not sure having videos uploaded directly to Lemmy would be that much of a change

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    Blaze ,
    @Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I use the web UI as well. Doesn't this work for you? https://reddthat.com/post/17937082

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    Blaze ,
    @Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Aah, sad to hear. Might be indeed, now I get why pictures posts work better than gifs

    MrZee ,
    @MrZee@lemm.ee avatar

    On iOS as well.

    Funny enough, that one worked for me, both in Voyager and safari. But a vast majority of gifs from catbox.moe don’t work for me as well. The issue appears to be intermittent (as opposed to something to do with the file or link format). So this one loading for me was probably just a “lucky” click.

    Emperor ,
    @Emperor@feddit.uk avatar

    You can embed external video now, allowing video uploading directly is just for the sake of convenience.

    Blackmist ,

    I've had issues with catbox, specifically it doesn't convert videos if they're incompatible with your browser. Firefox doesn't support H.265 for example.

    Blaze ,
    @Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    That's strange, I always check the gifs in catbox, they always play. Do you see the example I listed below?

    Blackmist ,

    Yeah, that one does. I think it's very dependent on what's been uploaded.

    They might even have fixed it now.

    Blaze ,
    @Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    That might be it, let's hope!

    veniasilente ,

    I mean, gifs will always play, they're from like 1995. H265 is a whole newer and noticeably heavier thing.

    Blaze ,
    @Blaze@reddthat.com avatar

    That's what I thought too but apparently on Safari it can be an issue

    veniasilente ,

    ...Huh. One learns new stuff every day!

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