Good evening,

Does anyone have a list of supported files for lemmy? I was trying to upload videos in .mp4 and it shows a json error. Should everything I post be a youtube link or is video hosting on its way?

Thanks and have a great weekend!

Adda
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72Y

Lemmy, as other similar sites, is meant to function as a link aggregator, not data storage. Therefore, usually any large files such as videos are not allowed to be stored at the service itself. You should truly use any service meant for storing videos and make a post linking that other service with your video, in this case.

But I agree, a documentation describing this topic would be nice. There might be one already, but I am not sure about it at all. And there should be a specific error notification, not a JSON error, I would say. That might be up for a new issue.

Dessalines
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52Y

We also support torrent links, which is the best way to distribute hosting costs for large content like videos anyway.

Adda
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22Y

I did not think about torrent links at all. That is actually a really neat idea.

mekhos
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52Y

This server is run privately. Videos probably add far too much storage and bandwidth overhead for the owners to ever happen.

Try to use a privacy respecting alternative to YouTube if you can, its more likely to be visited by people here

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