Feature: Video Support

[whoamiafterall]

Reason

Many of our actions are now accompanied by mob videos, aftermovies, appeals and, especially in the case of evictions but also mass actions, repeatedly short 2:20min videos for Twitter.

Prioritisation

It would be mega good if we had the possibility in the future (optimally until mid-January = start of eviction Lützerath).

Software

One software that could be used to implement this is to host https://mediacms.io, which then serves as a CMS.
There is the possibility of uploading media privately or for the entire instance to see. PDFs, audio, images and videos are supported.

Advantages

Uploading images would also feel more comfortable and interactive. Also, people could upload stuff who don't have direct access to the ticker account.

Idea for first step

The concrete implementation could initially be that the https://mediacms.io instance is non-public and individual accounts are given out, which are then linked to the ticker accounts, so that when you click on "Add Media" a kind of gallery appears for selecting the uploaded files.

Further ideas

Theoretically, MediaCMS instances would also be useful for political campaigns in general, as currently services like Telegram, Signal or Nextcloud (which is nice, but ultra slow) are abused for purposes like media sharing, or proprietary services like mega.io or flickr are used.

I don't yet have any idea what a public mediacms instance could look like.
However, there are many user management options (self-registration, invite only, closed system actions) and many publishing options (public).
and many publishing possibilities (public, private, unlisted and custom).

Here is a video about the software:
https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=aSX26zAydC0&t=189

Here is a blog post as a setup guide:
https://theitguycj.com/self-host-and-share-your-videos-audio-and-pictures-with-mediacms/

Alternative Idea

Alternative idea that solves only half as many problems, but is probably much simpler.

Use Peertube, Youtube, Vimeo and others as storage and enable integration via the share function or HTML Iframe or similar technology.

A PeerTube instance on which actors are already represented is e.g. this one:
https://climatejustice.video/