I understand the problem with server overloading and the problems with hosting big database etc. But can’t we host short , compressed videos with just good enough quality . Like some of the high quality gifs on lemmy is much ,much bigger than the kind of videos i described . Or am i missing something ? I do understand the issues but then why do they allow big gifs is it because people wouldn’t post much gifs but everyone and their dog will post videos if allowed ? I am saying if 5 mb is the max size of gif you allow set that as videos limit too . AND I NOT AT ALL AM ASKING FOR VIDEOS ON LEMMY JUST ASKING A QUESTION . I IN NO WAY WANT VIDEOS ON LEMMY BECAUSE I KNOW HOW THAT WOULD IMPACT THE INSTANCE HOSTERS . MAYBE JUST MAYBE I SHOULD PUT MY WHOLE THOUGHTS IN A POST BEFORE POSTING AND STOP EDITING IN THINGS AS I GO LIKE AN IDIOT .
EDIT : I put the last sentence in caps because i just wanted to draw attention to it and i am not angry .
I think you’re generally also expected to host the videos externally, like people did on Reddit before that started hosting their own. Remember when Reddit didn’t even have images but rather you uploaded them to imgur? That’s pretty much where we are with Lemmy.
And there are some decent fediverse services for video that deals with it much better, like PeerTube, which even optimizes delivery with P2P.
What I would like to see is integration between services so you can easily share Pixelfed/PeerTube content and Lemmy/Sublinks gets to remain a link aggregator.
Yeah if it shows in the post without needing to click a link i see no problems