I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • 312@lemm.eeEnglish
    933·
    1 year ago

    Embedding videos doesn’t require local storage of videos. When you embed a YouTube video, you’re just linking a container which loads and displays the video from YouTube’s servers.

    • trifictional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      233·
      1 year ago

      But that’s not really a feature of Lemmy itself, but the program reading it.

      For example, if I’m using a Lemmy app on my iPhone and I see a post with a YouTube link, the app is the one that needs to implement this embedded view feature.

      • 312@lemm.eeEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        Yes, but I assume the OP is referring to lemmy-ui, which is the built-in frontend for desktop and mobile in the browser, which does not at this point support dynamic conversion of youtube links to embed cards AFAIK. App support of embeds will obviously be on a app-to-app basis.

      • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Lemmy does serve up its own UI which reads itself and that UI doesn’t support embedding videos.