Every time I try to post a gif to a community, it automatically converts to a video. Is there a way around this? I’ve seen other posts that use gifs, but I couldn’t replicate it myself.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    Not sure, but gifs are much larger in size than mp4. Probably too reduce storage and bandwidth to serve them.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    The posts that you seen the gifs were they by someone on another instance? Lemmy.world might do a conversion when uploading to them.

  • Quinten
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    11 year ago

    Have you uploaded the gif directly to the post?

    Maybe try to upload the gif to Imgur and then copy the url?