My major struggle with Lemmy right now is that it is near impossible to post a video/gif/mp4 without having another account on a hosting provider. Reddit handled this very well, and I am concerned that if there isn’t an easy solution on Lemmy, it won’t work for many people as an alternative to Reddit.
For example, I made a few video/gif memes. I couldn’t upload the mp4 or gif version to any of the 3 instances I joined. I went to imgur, but it requires a log in, and the link takes you to my profile. I tried giphy and another gif hosting site, but there is time/size limits.
Am I missing something? I know storage isn’t free/unlimited on Lemmy, I totally get that the people hosting instnaces have server costs and shouldn’t foot the bill…but something’s got to give.
Use catbox.moe. Don’t know how long it holds the data though.
This looks like it will work for me, thanks! I do still feel like not having a more baked in solution will be an issue for many.
Imgbox is good as an external solution. But I agree that it would be great for the major lemmy instances to have self-hosting of images to make it seamless.
There have been two discussions on this in the past few days. Please have a look at previous topics.
I hope it’s not always the case like in Reddit. This stifles discussion.
This is also almost an impossible task for some since the search function in lemmy is still somewhat lacking.
“Somewhat lacking” is putting it nicely. I mainly browse lemmy on Jerboa and it doesn’t even have a function to search community posts, let alone one that is lacking.
Most of us are new here. And frankly it’s very hard to find topics here. Reddit was hard enough but there’s a lot here and the search is ass. Many bugs and limited usability. Please be prettiest and help or this place won’t have a bunch of new users for long.
