Hi! We’re new here, not gonna bore you with detail, let’s just say we’re a daddy/stepdau couple, but we would love to know how to post videos or gifs here on lemmy so they would show in a community feed. Any advice is welcomed! Thanks! 🦄👄

  • @dazedandconfused
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    211 months ago

    When you create a post, at least on the website, there is a separate field for a Link, different from Title and Body. I’ve done that with redgifs several times and it works great. I get an embedded video player on mobile and on the website.

    • Tiara and The DaddyOP
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      411 months ago

      Nope, it’s still showing only a link. Could you lead me on how did you do it? Maybe screenshots? I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I past a link into URL section but it only shows a link, not video, when I post it

      • @pornonmain
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        211 months ago

        I think you’re doing everything correctly. If you’re using lemmy through the web ui / your browser then you have to click on the thumbnail of the video, not the ‘+’ button for inline video playback. See https://files.catbox.moe/w8l51k.mp4

        Most Lemmy mobile apps currently don’t support redgif inline video playback. The only one I know of is Liftoff!.

        • Tiara and The DaddyOP
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          211 months ago

          I’m using Voyager and some videos are being played, some not, I don’t really understand the pattern

          • @dazedandconfused
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            211 months ago

            It might be the file type of the video, like .mov, .mp4, .webm, .gif, .gifv?

            • @pornonmain
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              111 months ago

              That is definitely a factor for a hoster like catbox.moe, but I would assume that most tube sites and redgif would re-encode a video to the same format, no matter in which format you upload it?

              • @dazedandconfused
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                211 months ago

                You’re right. I’m thinking about catbox.moe. The other sites ought to re-encode.

          • @pornonmain
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            11 months ago

            Voyager doesn’t play any videos for me. It shows thumbnails for some hosting sites like Pornhub or EroMe, but as far as I can tell it doesn’t support video playback (yet). Do you have an example of a video with playback using Voyager?