I was wondering what people have been doing to share videos! It doesn’t seem like uploading locally to the instance is currently an option, right?

  • fubo@lemmy.worldM
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    1 year ago

    Use a regular video hosting service and post a link.

    If you have a large video that you want to share with the public, and you don’t want to either (1) host it on a commercial video service or (2) pay for the costs of bandwidth to serve it, maybe consider BitTorrent?

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      1 year ago

      Nice!

      Figure I’ll update under your comment.

      I spent some time looking and found that Pixelfed and Peertube are recommended. Turns out there’s a pixelfed.social which seems good as long as you make your posts unlisted and keep yourself off the public directory (unless you want that).

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        1 year ago

        If you’re sharing the link on Lemmy, why would you want it unlisted there?

        (Not saying you’re wrong, I never heard of pixelfed before — just wondering.)

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          1 year ago

          That’s a good question. I don’t know, but I figure people using Pixelfed might not generally be the target audience for what I’m sharing on Lemmy. But that’s just personal preference I guess?

          I haven’t used Pixelfed before either! It seems a lot like Instagram, basically?