Are you on lemmy.world or a subdomain of lemmy.world like a.lemmy.world or photon.lemmy.world or m.lemmy.world or old.lemmy.world ?

Try https://lemmy.world/post/30404573/17330074

I have uploaded many animated .gif and .webp just fine, though I didn’t try uploading mp4 because if it somehow works I don’t want to waste storage from the instance I’m on with videos

GIF (sorry that was the last one I got saved)

WEBP

Weird, it’s saying the videos are an image to you? What client or web interface are you on?

Try through this https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18867622 If it doesn’t also work from it then it may be your network blocking the video url origin domain or something of the sort. I’m on Librefox in Linux and checked with Firefox and both displays it fine

Probably your interface, lemmy default interface seems to display fine .mp4 .webm .mp3 the devs maintaining the interface you’re using either havent been made aware of it not working or just simply need this compatibility to be ported over

Forgot to mention but .mp3 is also supported

For @[email protected] it also didn’t load and you both seem to not be using the default lemmy interface which seems to be the common factor, if you come on this thread in the default lemmy interface you can see both https://sh.itjust.works/comment/18867622

I guess both interfaces of you two dont support video embeds, maybe someone didn’t report this issue yet in their repo

It was a mp4 video and it displays fine for me, but heres a webm and tell me if you can watch this one

What do you mean by video not being supported on Lemmy?

Sometimes it’s needed for other needs too, in my experience some will just blurt how complicated is to move or they will move but sometimes forget to open it to check for messages since they’d only be using it to talk to you instead of switching entirely to another platform like you did, some people are fine with the cost of isolating themselves to not worry of those who won’t put effort to contact you through your privacy-wise better alternative you are using but some will eventually burn out and give in to partially going back to said terrible platforms like Discord, it’s all about threat model. I find it easier to convince people from Discord to use Matrix but people using WhatsApp? Oh well, those you hardly will manage to convince them all for you to just quit it. How I see is in the end we are all different with different needs, some people will just happily comply with your request becauss they proudly will support you switching elsewhere for a reasonable and good reason but some will try and stop, and some will just keep insisting for you not to leave (then if you leave even if they’re insisting you not to, who would be at fault then? they’d be begging you to stay and most of the time these people are usually the ones who still hasn’t awakened to the dangers of privacy invasive platforms and just shrug it off, so they are not leaving because they don’t care about you, they just don’t get at all why you are doing it and find it pointless - which helps when you try to inform them in a long period of time about such things, but who does that all the time when trying others to switch? some find out about these issues and just want to snap into the better privacy-wise alternative asap)

FYI my reply isn’t some defending talking points not to switch but to explain from different perspectives why some just won’t bother