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If you upload a WEBM to file hosting service like catbox.moe, you can link that as a post and it plays as a video. It only works on a desktop browser though.
Like this for example.
Okay this is what I'm talking about, embedded video that can directly play even if isn't directly hosted on lemmy. So I guess the way to go is having WEBM content and linking directly to the file from the post so that supported clients are able to show an embedded video. Thanks, I'll try this out
The software that manages media files for Lemmy (pict-rs) actually supports videos now but I don't think Lemmy itself does. Hopefully we'll get it soon but I expect a lot of restrictions from smaller instances because video hosting is very expensive.