I mean… that never stopped workers people before
If I remember correctly, the thinking process was that when we cook we kill a lot of bacteria which is essential to our body getting stronger so the Jews came up with the conspiracy to cook all the food to kill the bacteria that is supposed to make us healthier, in order to make foreigners weaker while the Jews continue to eat raw meat in secrecy and get stronger.
I think that the main problem with hosting videos on this platform is the amount of space. Keep in mind, Lemmy runs on donations, it does not have venture capitalist backing of any kind. So even if the support for videos (or gifs) eventually comes, it will either be very restricted (i.e. max 8mb uploads, similar to Discord’s free tier uploads) or disabled entirely by the instance admins because the cost for hosting video will be just way too much.
Time will tell, I guess, for now there’s no video support being mentioned anywhere on GitHub issues, so it is likely not planned.
If there’s an automated set up, absolutely go for it, you shouldn’t be doing the same mundane task over and over again. I, however, recommend at least once to do it yourself/go over the docs just to understand how to troubleshoot when stuff breaks or if it interests you how the software works. For example: A lot of people think that Watchtower queries the docker repo to see when it was last updated and that’s how it processes it’s updates. The truth is, watchtower downloads the entire image, checks it against your currently used image and if it’s not the same it updates. What then happens is that server maintainers set the poll interval really low (like 10-15m) and end up using a lot of bandwidth.
Your wish is my command.