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?

  • ArtificialLink@lemmy.ml
    171·
    1 year ago

    I do not believe Lemmy internally handles things like gif or videos or photo album posts currently. To do that is best to just use a third party service and post the link to it. I’m sure other lemmings can point you to good services for this.

  • marshoepial@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

    If you put a direct link to a gif or video as the “link” of your post, I think it embeds automatically. But Lemmy right now does not support uploading videos directly.

  • Altair@vlemmy.net
    4·
    1 year ago

    ![](https://media.tenor.com/SkN-0OUQytEAAAAd/i-have-no-enemies-vinland-saga.gif)

    ->

    Albums aren’t supported yet though, you’ll have to post extra images in the post body for now

  • Curious Canid@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    One of the “editing” icons under the post/comment window will allow you to upload images directly to Lemmy. I suspect it would accept a GIF, but I haven’t tried that. It does not currently support videos directly, but they can be done by linking to another source, as was already said.

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
    3·
    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
      4·
      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.