So I was always a lurker and never uploaded anything, but I want to contribute to Lemmy as we all leave Reddit… can anyone help me upload a video from my iPhone? I’m not sure if it’s an issue with it being large (500+ MB for a 45s video), a wrong codec (the standard on iOS 16.5), or something else. Thanks!

  • The dogspaw @midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Maybe they block videos from being uploaded all lemmy instances are run by regular people so they probably don’t want a bunch of videos taking up all there hard drive space and having no room for discussions I think you should probably post it to YouTube or some other video hosting site and then link to it on lemmy

  • seahorse [Ohio]@midwest.socialM
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    1 year ago

    Hello, I believe there is a limit to upload sizes to keep server space down. Right now I only have 50 GB and about 80% of it is used up. I’m not sure what it is I’ll have to ask the devs.

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      1 year ago

      That makes total sense… I’ll have to investigate compressing and making GIFs etc to share cat craziness and other /r/abruptchaos, thanks!