It’s been great 4 days here on fediverse for me. But I started to notice that there is barely any content in form of videos or gifs. Every content is just static in form is images or text. This is what I am really missing here compared to reddit. Is there any particular reason behind it?

  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    For now I don’t think it makes sense to federate large media like videos. The storage costs are just too high to replicate this data all over the place.

    Luckily, media isn’t federated but only stored where it was uploaded ^^

    • lml@remy.city
      21·
      1 year ago

      On Lemmy that is. Kbin I believe replicates everything (unless I set my server up wrong). My server at the moment pulls in around 1.5 GB a day it seems. There is a pull request open on the kbin git repo for a feature to auto-remove old media. Personally I’d like the ability to turn on/off media replication. If an instance wants a complete copy in case of defederation/disconnection somehow, they can opt in and mirror all media that comes in. Most servers should just link to the original image source on the originating instance though.

      • nachtigall@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        I have another cool tip for you. You can embed the graphic into your comment when you use markdown formatting. This way ![](https://media.tenor.com/uC2qyrJsT6wAAAAM/oh-really-o-rly.gif) becomes this:

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        • SCmSTR@kbin.social
          0·
          1 year ago

          I’m on the android chrome kbin app, annnnnd i think you meant to embed that? But lol… For me it’s the literal exact same bluetext hotlink

          • garrettw87@kbin.social
            0·
            1 year ago

            Since it sounds like you have auto media preview turned off, just tap that little icon to the left of the link, and you’ll see the image load below the link.

            • SCmSTR@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              Oooooo… Yes that’s it. Thank you. That’s a good protip. I’m assuming that’s a setting that I probably turned off while trying to make the the All page be more compact.

              Edit: I don’t know where that setting is. It’s not in my profile settings.

                • SCmSTR@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  My God. Multiple times I’ve been on that screen in the past. But every time, I’ll have no idea how I got there. I’ve tried to get back, but the best I had was on a magazine’s page at the very bottom.

                  Thank you for showing this.

                  My opinion? This is AWFUL design. That a second settings button is THERE is unbelievable. Maybe I’m not hip to how the fediverse exactly works, but this doesn’t feel like the right route to that stuff.