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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/syncforlemmy
 

Only because of ~~giphy~~ other platforms being shut down soon. No other reason. Just need a new place to show GIFs. Pretty important. Just normal GIFs.

Some communities currently just show a link which directs to your browser and it's not a smooth experience.

I just want that one of Homer backing into a hedge or Matt Damon turning old at the end of saving private Ryan. Just normal fun GIFs.

Totally innocent normal GIFs.

On redgifs.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago
[–] Assassin4 22 points 1 year ago

I too would like better support for totally innocent normal GIFs. Is it possible the awesome 3rd party app creators can find a way to to handle these?

[–] ekZepp 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You can try Pixelfed a federated Instagram alterative but I'm not sure if it supports gifs yet.

[–] drekly 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

OK. but hear me out.

A creator wants to share their gif on reddit 1 month ago -

They click a subreddit, new post, link to a redgifs gif. Gives it a title. Done. It turns up in everyone's feed animated and easy to find.

Now, people are dropping off, so they turn to lemmy, where the reddit userbase started moving. and now they're told to go to Pixelfed or tell people to install an extra app to view gifs as a popout, but not animated in the stream.

You see what I mean? friction!

People want to sign in, upload, done. They don't want to fumble around with servers and different instances and extra apps to add to the one they already downloaded

Reddit killed NSFW content in third-party apps, so let's let Lemmy be the VHS or the Bluray, not Betamax and HD-DVD.

[–] NatoBoram 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't even think all apps supported redgifs. I'm making a web app and… how in the fuck am I supposed to support that website? Other image hosts have an extension like .gif in their URL so that's easy, but what about redgifs? Am I supposed to hard-code something specifically for them? That doesn't sound right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sync did.

I used to scroll through and save GIFs of the guy from blink 128 mouthing the words "wtf" and the GIFs of Patrick Bateman from American psycho nodding in approval.

And they would all save to the Reddit folder on my phone.

And then they'd autoupload to Google photos, and then my wife would see them too.

And then she'd say no way am I doing that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is a still image on jerboa, and I'm referring to posts, rather than comments, to allow creators to share their work in some communities where a link to that domain is well used.

Like highqualitygifs, I would assume. I wouldn't know I don't use redgifs that often so I'm unsure where it would be most popular.

It would also be useful to have a "filter by content type" akin to RES's filters, to allow users to view only text/link/image/gif content in their feed when they're in the mood for only seeing good text-selfposts or ONLY GIFs of, for example Homer Simpson.

[–] ekZepp 2 points 1 year ago

Ok i've tested it and it works. Yo can upload on Pixelfed any gif (up to 15mb) and the link works πŸ‘

[–] Nioxic 7 points 1 year ago

I would not mind porn here, including redgifs

So long ad posts are explicitly marked with a pink nudity tag

Gore etc should be nsfl in a different color

And just offensive stuff like.. i dont know. A rainbow, could be regular nsfw

[–] Thomas_Ladder69 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What ever happened to WEBMs? Weren't they supposed to dethrone GIFs or something?

[–] eco 7 points 1 year ago

What do mean? It's used pretty extensively.

What people call GIFs these days are almost always not actually GIFs. GIFs will usually have high dithering due to it using an 8-bit color palette and an odd frame rate because the per-frame delay is specified in jiffies so you can't really get normal framerates (especially high ones).

What dethroned GIFs was the <video> HTML element. The video format doesn't matter.

[–] warmaster 2 points 1 year ago

Isn't that being used whenever there's a "gif" with sound ?

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