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Upcoming AMA with Lemmy's creators: Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they'd like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I never said to ban video. Video can be hosted elsewhere and shared as links without the need for instances to host and embed videos on instances. Lemmy instances are run by hobbyists and people with extra potato hardware. They do not have billions of dollars like Big Data companies.

Lemmy needs to be kept light without fancy video and unnecessary web2/3 bloat. Far more blind users have old tech, than those that need specifically video on Lemmy. PeerTube, Odyssy, LBRY, Vimeo, Dailymotion and even YouTube can be used for video.

Most visual needs for blind people can be met with gifs and pictures instead of video, where one video can eat the space of hundreds and thousands of images that thousands of blind users could get help with.