You can start an instance and host video content and I think the issue will quickly reveal itself π
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2024
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I said i understand that but why do they allow big gifs then ?
As an instance admin, I would prefer not to have users uploads videos or GIFs on Lemmy.
Why? Because Lemmy instances make a local copy of media hosted on other instances. Right now, without any cleaning, my instance has been accumulating 18GB of pictures since July. Imagine how much more that would be if videos were in the mix.
Lemmy does lots of weird shit when you try to upload animated stuff anyway, so I've just taken to hotlinking the images from elsewhere.
Easier on instance admins and easier on me since I don't have to deal with my file being randomly converted without asking.
Man, my Mastodon instance has ~800GB of cached media.
That sounds like a pretty big design flaw.
I do not disagree with you.
I get the feeling that federation, in its current form, is not sustainable.
Yeah, but people are going to keep working on it as it grows. Itβll become sustainable because of that.
I think the impact of big gifs is minimal in practice relative to other stuff that puts load on the server (even if they are, second for second, larger), whereas the impact in practice of hosting potentially-higher-quality video content would be a whole different ballgame
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I wasn't tryin' to say it to disturb you. It sounds like you're pretty much in agreement with reasons it might be a bad idea, so why so angry about someone saying back to you, yes those reasons might potentially make it a bad idea.
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I am not at all angry i just didn't wanna type it out again and wanted to answer your question too .
Caps lock is often interpreted as yelling/anger. In the future I recommend instead pressing enter a couple of times at the end of your post, and adding a section that starts with "Edit:".
Hmm i just wanted to draw attention to the edit .
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
I mean the real reason is, because no one cared enough to implement it. Probably because there are enough third party sites to host stuff and you can just link them.