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What are the file size limits for Lemmy media uploads? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by s12@sopuli.xyz to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Just curious. Couldn’t find out on Google.

Since Lemmy instances are self hosted, I imagine that it would be much less than most social media sites.
What about types of files? Could you upload an animated image sequence or video if the file was small enough?
Does this vary between instances?
Could you even upload stuff such as .zip if admins wanted to specifically allow it?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Totally depends on the individual server settings.

[–] s12@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any norms/defaults?

[–] Cheez@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can't tell you specifics, but etiquette right now is to try and host elsewhere and link instead, on account of the rapid scaling hosts will be going through right now.

[–] s12@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know.
Was just curious.

[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It has been suggested to upload to the appropriate fediverse applications, PeerTube, FunkWhale, CastPod, Pixelfed, then link.

[–] s12@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wonder if people have considered automatically forwarding to them, or using them to archive old media.

[–] DivergentHarmonics@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

You mean, like automatically uploading videos to PeerTube from the Lemmy UI? Yep, that would be nice to have at some point. I'd guess it's not a priority right now.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The default Docker nginx file specifies 20mb: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/0.17/docker/nginx.conf

[–] s12@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Wonder if a feature to allow admins to set different upload perms to users who have distinguished themselves to different extents and have their max size scale based on server demand would be helpful if it hasn’t been implemented yet.
Might help lighten the strain from these kinds of events.

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