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I can see images, which is nice.

Just curious if there is a note of what media can be uploaded and if this can vary by instance.

jpgs seems fine....but webm, gifs, mp3, mp4 etc I have no idea about. I couldn't see an obvious way to upload videos and instead of trying 64^4^ different media combos as an image thought I'd ask.

Apologies if I've missed something obvious.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems like they should work

Lemmy also allows sharing of images and videos. To upload an image, go to the Create post page and click the little image icon under the URL field. This allows you to select a local image. If you made a mistake, a popup message allows you to delete the image. The same image button also allows uploading of videos in .gif format. Instead of uploading a local file, you can also simply paste the URL of an image or video from another website.

Note that this functionality is not meant to share large images or videos, because that would require too many server resources. Instead, upload them on another platform like PeerTube or Pixelfed, and share the link on Lemmy.

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/02-media

I saw someone try to post a GIF earlier and it didn't work for one reason or another so I'm not too sure

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a mirror to that document? I'm getting a 404 error when opening the page.

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

Thanks for the link but it doesn't answer really answer my questions about media formats.

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

Thanks,

I get the 'large' video issues but curious of there is room for 'small' clips?

Is there a Peertube or PixelFed type thing for gifs or webms?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I linking to image galleries would work more natively. Currently linking to an imgur library doesn't even show a thumbnail

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