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I do think social media (or becoming a carrier of other people’s data) is incredibly difficult. How do you moderate? How much liability do you take on? etc. I’m very interested to see how this gets tackled over time in the Fediverse.

Thanks for the reply. Yeah - for example have some documentaries of friends I’d like to share that are multi-GB, and not that “streamable” on slow connections.

I also really don’t need another server to manage right now :)

What about if you want to serve adaptive bitrate content (eg. 4k on a fast connection and 720p on a slower one). The best solution I’ve run across so far (posted in another comment) is encoding locally to MPEG-DASH and using dash.js from the browser to let people view the file.

I guess this has some issues if users want to download it, but I’m really just looking for a quick way to view it in the browser.

It also looks like MPEG-DASH isn’t supported by iPhones yet, but everyone else supports it (and MSE might be supported in iOS 17, rounding out browser support).

Granted I posted here and simultaneously kicked off my search, but it looks like locally encoding to MPEG-DASH and having a static page using something like dash.js might be the way to go?

It’s worth mentioning that my primary use-case is for lemmy posts. I currently see a lot of people linking to streamable.com, but I’m not interested in using that service.