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Why do I not find any video/gif content here? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by zerozaku@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It's been great 4 days here on fediverse for me. But I started to notice that there is barely any content in form of videos or gifs. Every content is just static in form is images or text. This is what I am really missing here compared to reddit. Is there any particular reason behind it?

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[–] robotdna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is Lemmy capable of playing that format of multimedia? And if so, do clients like Jerboa support it? I've also noticed this

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Lemmy capable of playing that format of multimedia?

If it isn't, then it will be the biggest downside of fediverse. But I do remember seeing a gif while I was on my PC.

[–] entropicshart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the longest time Reddit only supported media through external sites (Imgur, copy, etc).

Memmy (iOS app in beta) supports uploading media to Imgur and then inserting the link, much like Apollo did; hoping to see that extended to other hosting sites as well

[–] ReluctantAxe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Personally I think that hosting media is not the right move for Lemmy/kbin. Creates a long term never ending cost and liability. Reddit worked fine without hosting for a decade.

[–] BurnTheRight@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think so. Kbin user avatars can be animated gifs.

[–] drumdonuttea@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

@BurnTheRight

@zerozaku @robotdna

Can confirm 🙂

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Seems like animated pictures in posts only work if it's in WebP format but in post bodies or comments gif works too. mp4 should be possible in theory but does not play for me. See this test post.

For the apps I doubt it. The native media libraries often lack support for animated images.

[–] I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Seems to work on kbin. Can upload gifs and images from the comment screen.