I partially know the answer to this question…You cannot host videos directly on Lemmy, but that is understandable, video hosting is pretty expensive, but Lemmy also doesn’t support video embeds(videos don’t play within Lemmy), which means that you will have to open the link in a new tab/window to watch it. Which is pretty annoying/inconvenient, and that is probably the main reason why video/gif posts are just not popular here. Even if someone does post it, users mostly can’t be bothered to open it.
I’ve read somewhere that this is intentional and that is “privacy and security matter”. But that kind of doesn’t make sense to me. Alright, I understand how it can be a privacy concern, since the sites on which the videos are hosted can track you. But we switched from Reddit…Not really known for being privacy friendly… People that are concerned about their privacy will know what to do/not to do.
I’m not knowledgable enough to understand how it can be a security matter. I guess if the video is hosted on a malicious site…But wouldn’t that be easily solved by simply allowing only trusted, well known sites?
Video is simply the most superior type of media there is, and I think that not having easy access to it on Lemmy is hurting it.
Are there any other reasons why we don’t see video posts on Lemmy, and are there any plans to make videos more easily consumable on Lemmy?
Possibly that many here are here for a more text based experience and don’t see it as a problem.
Me lol
I don’t really browse much when I’m in a comfortable place to watch a video. Occasionally might save a video post and pull it up later if it seems really interesting. Did that today with some of the game trailers that dropped
I agree videos are not great but I imagine the NSFW communities may have a different stance.
I don’t see why they can’t just host it somewhere else and link to it. It’s not hard to click through.
I think hosting images here was a mistake, lemmy should be text only, with markup to allow linking to other forms of content.