I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • @[email protected]
    10•1 year ago

    I’m not sure if Lemmy already does it or not but I wouldn’t mind if it also compressed attached pictures to save on storage and bandwidth like some other forums does (eg compress picture to <1mb).

    • hitagi (ani.social)English
      10•1 year ago

      I wouldn’t mind if it also compressed attached pictures to save on storage and bandwidth

      It already does depending on the instance configuration. In my instance, all images are converted to WEBP and downscaled to 1000 pixels max either side.

      • daspriiEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        ani.social

        I love that lol.

        Is there somewhere in the docs that explains how to configure your instance to compress images like that?

        • hitagi (ani.social)English
          3•1 year ago

          ani.social

          I love that lol.

          hehe

          Is there somewhere in the docs that explains how to configure your instance to compress images like that?

          The Lemmy docs are kind of lacking admittedly but you can configure image compression through pict-rs. You can find all the environment variables you can use here.

          My docker-compose.yml file includes this:

          pictrs:
    image: asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-rc.9-linux-arm64v8
    environment:
      - PICTRS__MEDIA__PREPROCESS_STEPS=resize=1000
      - PICTRS__MEDIA__MAX_FILE_SIZE=8
      - PICTRS__MEDIA__MAX_WIDTH=10000
      - PICTRS__MEDIA__MAX_HEIGHT=10000
      - PICTRS__MEDIA__FORMAT=webp