You can hotlink gifs. Don’t upload them since it will load them in the video player. It you use /!/[/]/(Gif url here/) that will hotlink the gif.
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Afaik, Lemmy only supports static images. Even uploading a .gif results in a non-animated image.
teft@lemmy.world 6 months ago
HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Gifs can be uploaded but there’s a low size limit. Still trying to figure it out. Probably varies by instance.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
That appears to be true seeing as @Deceptichum uploaded a working .gif to their instance.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 months ago
I don’t even know how to properly configure it on my own instance. I thought I had configured it properly to handle large gifs, but then it still doesn’t work sometimes for some random reason.
Doesn’t make it easier that lemmy uses pictrs 4 when pictrs 5 is currently the stable version. But I have no idea if Lemmy can handle that.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Do I look like a know what a gif is Image