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Do you want to publish videos on Kbin? Well, you actually can. (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Ignacio@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I discovered this feature some days ago, while tweaking the publish options. It's not available directly, but it can be done.

So, to upload a video, you have to select what kind of post you want to publish. In this case, select photo, or picture (I have it in Spanish, so I can see "fotografía"). Next, in the URL box, where it says "photo", you change it to "video". You press enter, and that's it.

Obviously, you have to copy/paste the URL where the video is hosted, but after that, you see a thumbnail of the video and the description. However, I don't know about publishing videos from your computer like you can do with photos.

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[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this is just the same as submitting a regular link lol

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

With the only difference that you can see a thumbnail via the video option.

[–] Noki@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

If you want to upload a video to the Fedivers use Peertube. Then you can link to it.

[–] InLikeClint@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

My options say 'post video' in the drop down.

[–] RosalynKirk@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

This is not "publishing videos to Kbin", this is just embedding a link to another website. Publishing videos would likely tax the shit out of the likely-already-overworked Kbin servers.