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?

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    Q: why do we need native hosting?

    IMO, adding native video support was a huge blunder on Reddit’s part, and the expense of it is likely a factor in how desperate they are to squeeze money from their users now.

    Let Lemmy and Kbin do what they are good at: aggregating links. Let others be good at hosting videos.

    If the Web client can eventually be improved to properly embed Vimeo/YouTube/etc links so they can be played inline, that seems like a good enough experience to me. Making a good video player is hard. Reddit’s native player sucks and Lemmy/Kbin are open source with even less resources.

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      One downside of using a 3rd party to host media is when it shuts down like gyfcat will in September, it will result in a lot of broken links with media forever lost.

      Self hosting has less chance of losing the media at the cost of having to pay for media storage.

      As a new website, I’d definitely prefer kbin or Lemmy to just focus on the core product and not self host media yet.

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        1 year ago

        Linkrot is also just a fact of life on the internet. Something we probably need to get used to once again.

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      Lemmy can already follow PeerTube channels. I’m sure proper support for this will hit kbin soon, too. People can utilize existing PeerTube instances, or set up their own if they’d like to publish videos to the fedi.

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      100% agree, I think adding native video was the first step in what felt like a progressive “TikTokification” of Reddit