What would be an appropriate name for a community to share short-form videos? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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I wanted to pick a name that's generic and not specific to any particular platform. For example, !microblogmemes@lemmy.world instead of !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

I don't see a community for that yet, aside from !loops@midwest.social, which is specific to Loops.

Some sources of the content could be:

Fediverse Loops
Tiktok
Instagram Reels
YouTube Shorts

The sidebar could include guides on how to link to the content in a more accessible way (ex. alternate front-ends or re-posting).

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Subsidiary question, how do you share videos, is it possible on Lemmy now?

I can't share images bigger than 2MB 😰

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

That is an instance specific limitation.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah I know, but it also seems to be a pictrs limitation, I have fiddled around a bit without success on my instance.

[-] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Post them to another host (realisticly, probably YouTube) and then post the link to that.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Well that won't show up as a video on Lemmy or will it?

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Depends of the interface. Mp4 show up correctly on the Web UI

[-] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you post the file to somewhere you can directly link to it (I.E. wvvw.notawebsite.com/file.mp4) it will show up as one. That said, I don't know of any hosts who allow sharing of Video content this way. Some clients also embed YouTube properly, and I wouldn't be suprised if PeerTube worked too, but I have yet to see anyone directly try and post PeerTube content.