Hey are there no GIF on Lemmy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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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[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago

gonna be so good if the intances block every .gif to preserve resources, and people is obligated to post using better codecs

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

When I say gif I mean animated image it could be whatever encoding format I don’t care. I’m talking about the short animated image looping format.

[-] Izzy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That doesn't make a lot of sense. For one people would be hosting the gif on another server than the Lemmy instance. Secondly the Lemmy server isn't the thing processing the image. Your computer and browser are. Thirdly gifs are way more efficient than any video codec you can imagine by its very nature of not being a compressed video format. It is just a series of images that requires no decoding. The point of a video codec is to make a video more compressed. Not to make its playback efficient.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe they'll start proofreading their comments too.

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