In the linked comment, I am lamenting that on Jerboa, you cannot easily see where the post’s link goes. When you click it, Android parses the domain name rather than filetype so the default action is to open with Jerboa. Because Jerboa cannot open the video, it just shows the instance’s home feed. The user needs to share/copy and paste the link to see the URL and deduce that it should be opened with a video player.
So please give Lemmy-hosted video links an appropriate icon (▶️/🎞/🎥 rather than ⛓️) and open them with an external app by default (the user can choose VLC or whatever) unless a built-in video player is getting implemented. Alternatively, a RIF-style pop-up would be appreciated to view the destination URL and offer actions like “Share/Copy/Go”, or even navigate to next/previous hyperlinks in comments (useful for fat-fingered users).
Your phone doesn’t open feddit.de links with Jerboa automatically.
However, neither does mine and I can choose the app every time: not knowing that it’s a video link (only seeing the “open feddit.de link with…” pop-up), I chose Jerboa because I thought it led to a post or comment. A built-in video player for common servers or at least indication that the link is a video (perhaps a thumbnail with a play button, film roll stripes or camera icon, or showing the URL) would help.
But why would a video link have feddit.de in it’s URL? Lemmy still doesn’t support videos, so it can’t be a video if it has that TLD in it’s URL.
Idk how it’s possible – but the URL is https://feddit.de/pictrs/image/ccb93097-3741-4b41-a8a5-5f8425f1b793.mp4 and it’s indeed a video.
Maybe the instance doesn’t check MIME types, just uploads whatever the user chooses. If that’s embeddable in any way, fine, a preview is generated, if not, hey, tough luck, here’s the link and that’s that.