Lemmy makes it pretty simple to upload pictures currently but what about videos? I found this issue posted in 2022 about integrating a video service but nothing really came from it. Does Lemmy have a road map to solve this issue? I feel like this will be an important part in Lemmy’s adoption
Perhaps there could be a max file size? It could even be configurable by instance admins.
The problem with that is that you either limit the file size extremely low, like discord does, and it becomes pretty much useless, or you up the limit to something somewhat useable, and before you know it you’re in charge of storing and serving 1TB of garbage per day.
Video hosting is very expensive, and with Lemmy instances barely getting enough donations for basic hosting, it’s just not feasible.