This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @nutomic@lemmy.ml and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.
To devs and instance owners that read this, do not integrate video onto servers, to save yourselves from astronomical storage space issues. Text, images and audio (64-128 kbps OPUS or AAC) are extremely cheap.
The Deaf Community uses sign language which can only be captured and distributed as video. Many Deaf people did not have a good education, therefore their English is not at a level to be fluent. Their first language will be Sign Language. My first Language is Sign Language, but I am also fluent in English. I was privileged to be able to have a good education, thanks to my parents who supported me and made good choices for my educational needs.
Now, back to the point about video in posts and comments. I would like to see an opportunity for a Sign Language instance. There may be funding to cover the cost of storage to allow this, but this can only be a reality of video can be implemented natively.
Other instances can choose to turn this feature off? Let there be an option 👍
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.