One of the only things I find myself missing about reddit is the videos. I’m aware that it’s not really feasible for videos to be hosted on a lemmy instance at the moment, but I’m curious if that might change
Embedded is what you’re looking for I believe, it is currently an imposition (impedance) to host videos on a Lemmy instance.
kadu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wouldn’t it be better to integrate with the existing federated video hosting service? (PeerTube) so basically host videos in PeerTube, link to Lemmy, make the Lemmy UI parse it as a video with a custom player
islandofcaucasus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m still pretty new here so i don’t know how that works, but I just want to see the random crazy person or fight video between memes and news stories
fubo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does PeerTube distribute load across instances, like BitTorrent? Or does it assume that the hosting instance has enough bandwidth to support all concurrent users?
atocci@kbin.social 11 months ago
PeerTube uses the WebTorrent protocol for its videos, so it does distribute load with everyone currently watching a video helping distribute it to everyone else. Each instance is its own torrent tracker. I'm not sure how I feel about it, because your IP address is visible to anyone else watching the video also.
kadu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m going to be honest with you, I have absolutely no idea how it works. And as far as I can see, there are very few instances at the moment.
Though someone smarter than me could probably answer you by checking the source code, or maybe they even have some documentation written already.
lntl@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
This is the answer.