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Video link posts or embedded self hosted video: how does federation of this content work? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 9 months ago by SSUPII@sopuli.xyz to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Are video files cached or federated in any way?

I want to make posts that include video, and those videos I wish to upload on my own webserver to not rely on external links or expiration dates.

But I fear for bandwith, and I want to know if the videos will be cached on the instance or if every user will be a full web request of the video (that I can of course mitigate via good compression, and/or having a dedicated CDN that won't empty my pockets).

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[–] iso@lemy.lol 1 points 9 months ago

This depends on the instance of the video being used. Some instances clone a copy of the video, some use proxies, and some send the link directly to the user. I don't recommend it if you have limited bandwidth.