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 do not believe Lemmy internally handles things like gif or videos or photo album posts currently. To do that is best to just use a third party service and post the link to it. I’m sure other lemmings can point you to good services for this.
wait lemmy don’t support album?, i did se albuns here
Tou can’t do an album as the main post link, but you can embed multiple images in the post body.
If you put a direct link to a gif or video as the “link” of your post, I think it embeds automatically. But Lemmy right now does not support uploading videos directly.
Embedding works, yeah, but it has to be a direct link. Can’t be youtube or such.
One of the “editing” icons under the post/comment window will allow you to upload images directly to Lemmy. I suspect it would accept a GIF, but I haven’t tried that. It does not currently support videos directly, but they can be done by linking to another source, as was already said.
It does support GIFs, converts them to MP4 after they’re uploaded on the server.
Lemmy is built by volunteers and people are paying for servers out of pocket. Storage costs money so it’s unlikely you’d ever see local hosting of large files like videos. Some instances will locally host files under a certain size limit, but it depends on the instance. There’s plenty of third party file hosts so you can just upload your file to one of those and link to it.
People forget that when Reddit first started, it only supported link submissions and then later self submissions. That’s how imgur got started - it was a gift to the users. It was only relatively recently when Reddit supported image and video hosting.
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Albums aren’t supported yet though, you’ll have to post extra images in the post body for now
For videos, AFAIK the recommendation is that you should post those through PeerTube which is also federated, and link to that in Lemmy.
Those are all possible, the options on how to do each aren’t clear or very versatile, yet.
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.
Get yourself a pixelfed account and a peertube account, and cross post
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