I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • hitagi@ani.socialEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    GIFs work. At least in the comments they do. Videos can be (somewhat) embedded if you use an external host (i.e. catbox).

    GIF sample:

    • sorenant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m a bitter old man who dislikes inline gifs in the comments, is there a way to block it like I did with RES on Reddit?

      • ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Using wefwef at the moment (Apollo inspired) you can use it on android desktop and iPhone as it is a webapp and they show up as a link for me that I can then click and doesn’t embed it or inline it.

      • hitagi@ani.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’m not aware of an option like that but that sounds like a good feature.

    • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
      05·
      1 year ago

      When people say “gifs” nowadays they don’t mean actual .gif files, .gif files are very outdated and barely used at this point.

      Gif has just become the term for short videos without sound