One of the only things I find myself missing about reddit is the videos. I’m aware that it’s not really feasible for videos to be hosted on a lemmy instance at the moment, but I’m curious if that might change

  • @kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43•2 years ago

    Wouldn’t it be better to integrate with the existing federated video hosting service? (PeerTube) so basically host videos in PeerTube, link to Lemmy, make the Lemmy UI parse it as a video with a custom player

    • @islandofcaucasus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      23•2 years ago

      I’m still pretty new here so i don’t know how that works, but I just want to see the random crazy person or fight video between memes and news stories

    • @fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Does PeerTube distribute load across instances, like BitTorrent? Or does it assume that the hosting instance has enough bandwidth to support all concurrent users?

      • @kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        I’m going to be honest with you, I have absolutely no idea how it works. And as far as I can see, there are very few instances at the moment.

        Though someone smarter than me could probably answer you by checking the source code, or maybe they even have some documentation written already.

  • @Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Embedded is what you’re looking for I believe, it is currently an imposition (impedance) to host videos on a Lemmy instance.

    • FartsWithAnAccentEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      They could just let us use embed code like this:

      <iframe width=“560” height=“315” src=“https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oHg5SJYRHA0” title=“YouTube video player” frameborder=“0” allow=“accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share” allowfullscreen></iframe>

      Doesn’t have to be hosted on the instance.