I think that one of the primary reasons that Discourse and Discourse communities exist is to be a distributed system of ideas and discussion, free from any one perspective.
Linking to videos is a very popular way to share ideas in these discussions, but we’re pretty much limited to YouTube and maybe Vimeo for good built in video sharing.
SUMMARY:
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MP4
video can be directly embedded into Discourse and they will play, but video hosting can get expensive - 3rd party sites like Mega or BitChute need to provide proper
og:type="video"
tags… Otherwise they rely oniframes
and must be manually whitelisted. -
PeerTube
already supportsog:type="video"
and can be cleanly embedded into Discourse right now.
For example, PeerTube URLs can be pasted directly and will playback just fine:
https://peertube.cpy.re/videos/watch/5a6133b8-3e0c-40dc-b859-69d0540c3fe5