I could see that being an option. It's totally doable technically. FFMpeg, some libraries, some code changes and then the Mastodon hosts will need more CPU, b

I could see that being an option. It's totally doable technically. FFMpeg, some libraries, some code changes and then the Mastodon hosts will need more CPU, bandwidth and disk space. Maybe some of them already have some beefy servers. There is still the mater of discoverability. One could find video shorts in the same instance but AFAIK there is not a centralized search unless one is depending on Google.