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Will there be redgifs support? (lemmynsfw.com)

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

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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] 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 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] 4 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