I just started using Lemmy and not sure where to ask this. From my short time, I noticed no videos, gifs, or photo album posts. Are they not supported yet on Lemmy?
I just started using Lemmy and not sure where to ask this. From my short time, I noticed no videos, gifs, or photo album posts. Are they not supported yet on Lemmy?
Lemmy doesn’t support video uploads yet. Even if it did, since instances are hosted privately (people rolling up their own servers or VPSes), I doubt anyone would actually allow video uploads. They just take too much space. Maybe some instances will allow it, but with a size limit, like a 10MB max file size for video files. Still, I doubt there will be many instances like this.
Regarding images and gifs, yes, you can currently upload them on Lemmy. You can upload as many as you want in a post, but some instances have also made filesize limits on image file size. Why? Well, many phones take very HQ pics nowadays and even if compression was set to a very high level, that still generates images of 5MB+ per image… which is a lot. The servers would run out of storage space within weeks. So, A rational file size for images would be somewhere below 1 or 2MB, which is what some instances have enforced.