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What would be an appropriate name for a community to share short-form videos? (lemmy.ca)
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I wanted to pick a name that's generic and not specific to any particular platform. For example, [email protected] instead of [email protected]

I don't see a community for that yet, aside from [email protected], which is specific to Loops.

Some sources of the content could be:

  • Fediverse Loops
  • Tiktok
  • Instagram Reels
  • YouTube Shorts

The sidebar could include guides on how to link to the content in a more accessible way (ex. alternate front-ends or re-posting).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Subsidiary question, how do you share videos, is it possible on Lemmy now?

I can't share images bigger than 2MB ๐Ÿ˜ฐ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That is an instance specific limitation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I know, but it also seems to be a pictrs limitation, I have fiddled around a bit without success on my instance.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Post them to another host (realisticly, probably YouTube) and then post the link to that.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well that won't show up as a video on Lemmy or will it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Depends of the interface. Mp4 show up correctly on the Web UI

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

On desktop, if you link to an mp4 file hosted somewhere, it embeds the video in the post, just as a picture would be embedded.

Example: https://lemmy.world/post/23008472

How does this post appear to you?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

There is just a link.

Edit: I'm using Connect.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If you post the file to somewhere you can directly link to it (I.E. wvvw.notawebsite.com/file.mp4) it will show up as one. That said, I don't know of any hosts who allow sharing of Video content this way. Some clients also embed YouTube properly, and I wouldn't be suprised if PeerTube worked too, but I have yet to see anyone directly try and post PeerTube content.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

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