I guess the title basically says it all. Anyone know how to post gifs, like you would post an image? Can you do that?

More info: I tried just uploading it the way I would upload an image and it somehow didn’t work. I’m not sure why. I’m doing it from my laptop, so it’s not a mobile issue.

Thanks!

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The GIF file format needs to die. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t support it out of the box. That shit was designed for animated images with a few frames and nothing more.

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The GIF file format needs to die. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t support it out of the box. That shit was designed for animated images with a few frames and nothing more.

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It seems to convert gifs to webp automatically.

I wonder if you’re just hitting the size limits? How big is your gif?

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1.5mb. Is that too big?

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With one of the latest updates to the Lemmy software the default upload size limit was made 1MB

Your admin might not have realized this, but likely yes - your file is too large. I set the limit to 10MB on my instance. @ruud@lemmy.world - have you set the upload size limit?

In the meantime though you can upload the file somewhere else and just use that.

catbox.moe allows up to 200mb, no account needed. Just copy the link it gives you and paste it as the post URL

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Ohh 1MB is too small. I’ll look into that

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Host it elsewhere, ideally as an mp4

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I saw a post not more than 10 minutes ago that had an embedded .gif posted and hosted on the lemmy.world image host. I tried doing the same thing earlier today and the image didn’t actually load. Is that other user just a wizard?

The post in question

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thats hosted off-site from imgur, they usually convert to mp4 automatically.

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Oh hm. Okay cool. I’ll have to figure out how to do that. Where for example would you host it?

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im using free IPFS hosts for anything that does not paste right in. Its a federated file storage system.

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Any more you can share about how to do that?

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