I’ve tried to upload a video to a community and it errors out with a syntax error on line 1, is this an unimplemented feature or is it bugged?

  • usernotfound@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    In my short time on this platform I haven’t seen any embedded videos either, so I’m guessing it’s not implemented.

      • jmcsEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I actually think that’s a bad idea, storing video is expensive and will quickly make hosting instances unsustainable. This kind of feature creep is what made Reddit an unprofitable black hole, and should be avoided.

        • Chickerino@vlemmy.netOPEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          i mean that’s a fantastic point, however community video content to me is extremely valuable and im struggling to fully switch to lemmy because of this

          • jmcsEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            You can easily store the video somewhere else and share it here. Lemmy is primarily a link aggregation platform and more walled gardens is the last thing the internet needs anyway.

            The alternative is no Lemmy because copying every single video to every single instance would bankrupt most of them.

      • usernotfound@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        As someone who also hosts an instance - I hope it doesn’t. That would make storage, traffic and load grow exponentially.

    • UrbenLegend@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I’ve seen video posts where clicking on the expand button pops up a tiny embedded player. Here’s one example: https://lemmy.world/post/426522

      It’s too tiny IMHO, but its there. Would be cool to see embeds in both posts and comments though.

      Seems like the expand section has been removed on lemmy.ml. Not sure why.