Thanks for the additional context. That is pretty interesting about the bandwidth!

So long as Lemmy succeeds in being successful long-term, in that it can grow significantly, retain users, and maintain a content stream, I do think some sort of solution here is probably inevitable. It’ll be interesting to see if it ends up being PeerTube, self-hosting, or something else entirely.

Yeah, that - thanks. So maybe in the future, lemmy instances can opt to “federate” (or something like it?) with PeerTube and Pixelfed instances, in the process adding the option to upload directly to them from the lemmy submission page, for an experience similar to uploading a video directly to reddit?

Helps avoid huge server space and network traffic issues for Lemmy, while populating PeerTube with what I assume is much-needed content.

I’ve completely forgotten what it is, but I remember reading in a comment a few days ago that there is something meant to replace Youtube in the fediverse. If that’s true, then it might be interesting to add a way to automatically upload videos to that from the lemmy submission page.

Sorting by hot and All, my front page looks like this right now - guess the bugged algorithm really likes that community for some reason.

Cool - thanks for clarifying. The rest of the things you mentioned being shared sound pretty expected to me - so as long as upvotes/downvotes are hidden I’m happy.

I think being able to see upvotes and downvotes is a little too far for comfort. I can confirm that on Lemmy I don’t seem to have any way to see what you’ve voted on.

I have a very poor understanding of what Kbin is - does it allow you to see what I’ve upvoted/downvoted even though I only use Lemmy? Does it only apply to posts or comments too?