Every time I see a video on other platforms, I may share this on Lemmy. Or every time I get creative to shoot a footage or create a video, I may share too. But, I reached conscientious about the availability and capacity of Lemmy instance(servers) to multimedias and videos, whether uploaded or embedded.

One of the reasons I get hooked on platforms is instantly displayed videos or interactives that also make me started to comment and discuss along those videos. Maybe this Lemmy be focusing first on being a news-link aggregator, text-to-text forum and pic ranking.

Or this hindrance I am wondering of is just insignificant (for now)?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nusiance about video on fediverse systems would be in deduplication and distribution. Central sites like youtube can take a hash of any given video and if it matches one already just link to that file. I'm pretty sure the same exists on systems like minio or using an S3 bucket per instance, but to link videos across a federation would either need to replicate the file and serve it P2P style, or hosts with a parculularly populat video are goin to get their bandwidth hammered.