Post #4496930
2026-08-11 10:58 UTC
@zleap@techhub.social @dansup@mastodon.social
You keep saying it's federated but I don't get it. Trying to view content hosted on instance A from instance B is not working unless the admin of instance A individually approves instance B. This sort of opt-in federation is apparently by design, as got explained to me when raising this issue on github, but I feel the way it works hinders the ability to spread the content across multiple instances, make loops.video the only place to be.
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@dansup@mastodon.social 2026-08-11 11:00
@dioxippe@mamot.fr @zleap@techhub.social The reason for this is because we don't yet proxy remote media, so it was either allow all remote video media and drive up storage costs or allow admins to curate what servers they allow. This will be fixed when we properly support a media proxy in the next release, and I apologize about this, but I have to consider admins first in this regard because they are the ones who pay for media storage.