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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?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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...

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

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

I can see this on the mobile browser but not in the Liftoff app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t show in Memmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see it on the web browser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hello there friend! ~~Using the magic of the fediverse to be here.~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The orly owl was my favorite meme circa 2007