Hey are there no GIF on Lemmy?
Hey are there no GIF on Lemmy?
I’ve seen only few GIFs on Lemmy. Most of them are just links but I’ve see a handful that were actually animated within the apps (I forget which app it was maybe Memmy). Is there a reason for the lack of GiFs?
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Because Lemmy hasn't been ruined quite yet
For those that don't know, you can use gifs with the url/link Markdown format like this:
Edit: added a description
Make sure to include a description of it in the square brackets for our visually-impaired friends!
gonna be so good if the intances block every .gif to preserve resources, and people is obligated to post using better codecs
When I say gif I mean animated image it could be whatever encoding format I don’t care. I’m talking about the short animated image looping format.
That doesn't make a lot of sense. For one people would be hosting the gif on another server than the Lemmy instance. Secondly the Lemmy server isn't the thing processing the image. Your computer and browser are. Thirdly gifs are way more efficient than any video codec you can imagine by its very nature of not being a compressed video format. It is just a series of images that requires no decoding. The point of a video codec is to make a video more compressed. Not to make its playback efficient.
Maybe they'll start proofreading their comments too.
All it took was one why...