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?

  • @darkan15
    51•1 year ago

    An Owl that turns to the camera with a surprised face with the caption 'oh really?'

    For those that don’t know, you can use gifs with the url/link Markdown format like this: ![](https://media.tenor.com/uC2qyrJsT6wAAAAM/oh-really-o-rly.gif)

    Edit: added a description

    Make sure to include a description of it in the square brackets for our visually-impaired friends!

    • artillect
      15•1 year ago

      Make sure to include a description of it in the square brackets for our visually-impaired friends!

      • @over_clox
        4•1 year ago

        I’m going to try to keep this more in mind in the future. I’ve edited my comments here to include a description.

    • @over_clox
      4•1 year ago

      I’m going to test a thing, apologies if it doesn’t work for some users…

      Edit: It’s supposed to be a pug licking the screen clean. MP4 format though, no audio. Works on most Discord communities.

      Edit 2: I added a description for blind users. People in comments are saying it shows up in the web browser, but not yet in the mobile apps.

      A pug breed dog with a white background licking the glass screen clean

      • all-knight-party
        7•1 year ago

        I’m probably an idiot for clicking a random tinyurl link someone posted, but it didn’t work for me in either the image preview or opening the link (on an Android phone)

        • @over_clox
          4•1 year ago

          Interesting. I found myself having difficulty retrieving the full link myself, but I guarantee it’s an innocent silly link.

          Lemme try again with the full link…

      • AnonymousLlama
        1•1 year ago

        Doesn’t open inline for me, but I’m also viewing this from kbin.social so there might be embedding issues