I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • mehble@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    One downside of using a 3rd party to host media is when it shuts down like gyfcat will in September, it will result in a lot of broken links with media forever lost.

    Self hosting has less chance of losing the media at the cost of having to pay for media storage.

    As a new website, I’d definitely prefer kbin or Lemmy to just focus on the core product and not self host media yet.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Linkrot is also just a fact of life on the internet. Something we probably need to get used to once again.