I just started using Lemmy and not sure where to ask this. From my short time, I noticed no videos, gifs, or photo album posts. Are they not supported yet on Lemmy?

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy is built by volunteers and people are paying for servers out of pocket. Storage costs money so it’s unlikely you’d ever see local hosting of large files like videos. Some instances will locally host files under a certain size limit, but it depends on the instance. There’s plenty of third party file hosts so you can just upload your file to one of those and link to it.

    • Jim@programming.dev
      2·
      1 year ago

      People forget that when Reddit first started, it only supported link submissions and then later self submissions. That’s how imgur got started - it was a gift to the users. It was only relatively recently when Reddit supported image and video hosting.