I’m making a community with a bunch of archived photos and videos I have of cats getting pulled along in shoeboxes in a train like formation - I’m calling it CatTrain.

Anyway typically I would host it on Reddit any they would come from v.reddit (after Imgur got all pissy) but I want to avoid using Reddits backend after they also decided to change direction.

What does everyone recommend?

  • Thoralf Will@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t any peertube-instance be the most natural choice for videos? Pixelfed likewise for pictures.

      • nutomic@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Note you can also follow Peertube channels from Lemmy, and comment on the videos from here.

        • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@lemmy.mlOP
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          1 year ago

          Hey @nutomic, so I ended up creating a pixelfed account after looking at what all if this is about and posting there… Since it does both videos and photos and also I got in immediately but still waiting for a peertube account to be approved.

          Anyway so I direct linked the MP4 over on !cattrain@lemmy.ml and there is no preview or indication it’s a video. Is there a better way to link them for user engagement? The images show up just fine

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        1 year ago

        Haha that’s another kind of rabbit-hole. Peertube would be cool, but in the end you can upload it anywhere, who really cares.

        • iod@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          i agree that it doesn’t matter much for now. but ideally we should learn from the imgur purge and choose something that is reliable.