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What kind of posts are supported on Lemmy?

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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?

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marshoepial@lemm.ee
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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.

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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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Embedding works, yeah, but it has to be a direct link. Can’t be youtube or such.

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ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.work
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It technically does, it’s just that not many admins would enable something like that considering how expensive in terms of both hardware resources and bandwidth serving videos would be.

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