Does the mobile app allow upload of gifs and videos? It seems to take stills of a gif, and no videos in folders when searching for file via liftoff.

I might be doing it wrong. Looking for advice and/or confirmation

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    The app isn’t in control of that. The instance you’re on is. I’ve only heard of one instance that allows direct uploading of video and gifs, and IIRC, it was Kbin. For others, you can only upload images; videos and such need to be linked.

    • GamerBoy705@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      To be clear, Kbin is not an “instance”. In fact, Kbin is not Lemmy. It’s a completely different thing than Lemmy. It’s like a mix of Lemmy and Mastodon. The image-only upload is a Lemmy limitation (not changeable by instances).

  • xyz@lemmus.orgEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Lemmy only supports images. You cannot upload video files to your instance. My workaround is to upload videos to YouTube or catbox.moe and then post the URL.

    • DeriHunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      11 months ago

      That’s one of the huge turn offs in lemmy I’m really missing videos and gifts that I consider getting back to reddit. This is bs

      • Oyster_Lust@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Lemmy instances are hosted on personal servers. They don’t have the massive storage space and bandwidth that a billion dollar corporation has. If you want an instance that hosts videos, then make your own. You’ll have to buy a lot of storage, and pay for a lot of bandwidth, though, because videos take up a lot of both of those things.

      • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Are you a reddit shill? Video on reddit sucked ass.

        “Going back to reddit”: yes, please. Leave. Everyone wins.

        • DeriHunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          How everybody wins if leave? Why the toxicity? Because I criticized this platform? Because I’m not thinking like you? It’s really easy to to be toxic when you don’t see the other person ha?

      • GamerBoy705@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        You can just upload anything to a third party platform and copy its URL when you create a post on Lemmy.

        • DeriHunter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          11 months ago

          I know this is possible but it isn’t convenient, andyiu don’t see a lot of posts with video or gifs here

      • xyz@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        The Liftoff developers can integrate APIs from video-hosting websites like catbox.moe and YouTube into their app. By doing so, we would be able to upload videos directly through the app without having to leave it. It would then automatically post the video URL on our behalf.

        If you like the idea, feel free to make this suggestions to the devs.

      • Ducks@ducks.devEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        There is literally nothing stopping you from sharing video on lemmy by uploading it to a 3rd party and sharing the link