Videos are kind of rare on Lemmy, and they work quite badly for me at least.
Are there any figures (or is it even possible to know, with the decentralised approach) of ho many there are a day, viewing numbers etc ?
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It’s worth mentioning about PeerTube, which is both an alternative for YouTube and other video platforms, as well as a proper platform for uploading videos on Fediverse. Sometimes I see Lemmy threads/comments embedding PeerTube videos and these videos work pretty fine.
Huh. How do you embed a peerrtube video?
Usually, media is hosted on pict-rs instances, set up alongside lemmy. That might have metrics reports bultin.
Video streaming is a bit hit and miss on Lemmy, depending on the instance. Same goes for media uploads.
The most common approach is to host it elsewhere and link to it.
It annoyed me enough to end up building my own, and it’s gotten convenient enough for hosting that I’m considering inviting others to give it a test.
You host video? Interesting! Care to share some details?
For a while I uploaded to catbox.moe, but found it annoying for various reasons, so I decided to roll my own.
Parallell to this I was tinkering with the theoretical foundation of a CDN, and I ended up combining the two projects into a hosting/distribution service which allows for easy hotlinking and embedding.
I’m not doing anonymous uploads, though. But once logged in (with a generous session time), the user will be presented with an upload box inspired by catbox as well as ability to rename, remove, etc, files that they’ve previously uploaded.
I’ve never been much interested in design, so I’ve mostly focused on getting it functional, and it’s working fairly well once you look past the placeholder graphics.
Lemme know if you’re interested in being a test user. While I do not consider it ready for the general public, it’s come far enough to be both useful and reliable.
Sure, can try it out and try to give some meaningful returns.
Alright, DM me your email address and chosen username, and I’ll set you up with an account tomorrow.
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One of the reasons why videos don’t work well in Lemmy is that many instances have not configured their setup correctly for video streaming.
How many instances even allow uploading videos? I literally have a video clip sent to me via text I wanna post but I don’t know where I could upload it other than YouTube, and it seems rather pointless to post it there when it’s just 8 seconds.
redgifs maybe?
I was just thinking the other day that there should be an integration with ipfs for sharing video and other large files and media in fediverse to help offload the strain of that which is hot.
Would that network be able to support it though? It’s based on voluntary sharing.
Got to publish my “better” protocol 😅, after the summer, promise 😇!
It’s been up and running for years. The uses I’ve come across is as a network of geo located file caching proxies. You need to have your own server up to seed the proxy instances, but then they will serve for future access until it is cleaned out from the cache.
I’m looking forward to it.
I know, I heard about it in 2016, but it’s still made up by volunteers so that’s why I wonder if it can take a big video-download hit. How resilient is it when 500 persons try to see that cat video at the same time?
Edit: IPFS stores data by hash which means one or just a few “neighbour” nodes will share that example cat video. It’s not super scalable IMO.
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