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!Friendica Support Is posting videos to Friendica unsupported at the moment? Web upload seems to work for a moment but the file is lost afterwards; upload via #tusky ends in a error message like "entity could not be processed "... .
@Kristian Yes, it is mostly unsupported. At the moment you’re better off uploading to PeerTube and resharing from your Friendica account. This makes private videos out of reach.
@Hypolite Petovan Hmmm, ok, so I'll keep using Mastodon or Pixelfed for videos. Don't intend to share longer clips or private movies after all, just smaller snippets.
@Hypolite Petovan @Kristian Is there a plan to implement this (at least small snippets would be great) or not on the roadmap at all?
@choyer @Kristian None of us on the development team are familiar with video handling, so the best we could offer is a simple pass-through after a summary file type detection to display a native video player. I assume there would be mixed results from arbitrary video upload but that's about it from us.
@Hypolite Petovan Personally I think this would be a point to start. Maybe not perfect for all cases but better than now..🙂
(Or, as an alternative, would it be possible to reshare posts from other accounts not as "native post" but as quoted? Currently, I could easily setup reshare for Mastodon or pixelfed but it wouldn't by then be visible from Diaspora...🙁
@choyer (elsica)
@Kristian @choyer How's the Quote Share feature without adding any additional text?
@Hypolite Petovan Would be pretty good for this case I guess. Doing the same for resharing Tumblr posts, but it so far doesn't work automatically, unlike the mirroring I can set up for in example Mastodon or pixelfed accounts...
@choyer (elsica)
@Hypolite Petovan @Kristian Would this be possible to be realised as an addon? I am unfortunately no developer, but happy to contribute to a bounty, if anyone would like to have a go.
@choyer Unfortunately, this is too low-level to be an addon.