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Feature Request?: Something similar to RPAN / Vertical video support (toast.ooo)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not entirely sure how that would work, but it would be a cool idea anyhow

Maybe a hook into Peertube or Owncast? although hooking into those might be out of scope for a Lemmy client idk

Edit: RPAN was Reddit's short-lived livestreaming experiment, which ended up being killed due to the cost of running a service like that.

How i envision it working within Mlem is that it would display an in-app embed (or native support) for videos hosted via PeerTube or Owncast in the feed (possibly taking up the native resolution / aspect ratio)

To improve discoverability, mlem would (theoretically) recommend communities that are tagged (probably via a #tag in the description) or something like that

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

We're focusing on building the best Lemmy client possible right now, and aren't considering branching out to cover multiple platforms. If we do ever consider that, it'll be in the far future once the client is properly polished. Lemmy themselves are discussing potential video support - if that's implemented into Lemmy, we would of course try to support it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's nothing stopping a client from supporting two different fediverse services at once other then the complexity. I have been thinking about how this might look for quite a while. Imagine you had a minimal posting interface for Peertube built into a Lemmy client that would automatically make a new Lemmy post about a Peertube video you just posted.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

this is exactly what I was envisioning, basically just better in-app video support & livestream support

i failed to explain that in the original post, but having vertical videos take up the whole vertical space of a phone would be nice (ofc w/ a setting to turn that off for people who don't enjoy those things)

maybe a feature within mlem to suggest communities that are aimed at those type of content (maybe via a #tag within the community description?) to increase discovery?

Edit: updated the OP w/ more details