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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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gifs are massively space inefficient.

Lemmy converts all images to webps, to save space and bandwidth. It's a very good format for web content.

It can also do animated images, like gifs, but at better quality and smaller file size. Lemmy seems to limit upload file size, not post file size, so sometimes you can get things to work by already converting it to a wepb before uploading, as the file will then start off as small as it can be.

Alternatively, use a media file host like imgur, and grab the url to direct file. Then simply put that in the post url. Other in the thread have mentioned other options.

You can also have stuff in comments. Like this:

To do this you use standard markdown: ![](url to media file)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Host it elsewhere, ideally as an mp4

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

Any more you can share about how to do that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

https://www.pinata.cloud https://nft.storage/

ignore the stupid name, it will take any file

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

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok, I figured this out after a week, use the app Memmy', they upload your images to imagur including GIFs, any way in the app create a new post, doesn't matter where, then insert your gif, it will automatically upload it to imagur.

Once you have the link in the URL section (your uploaded image) copy it and create the post you want, where you want in the Lemmy website, you now have a GIF.

Complicated but it works, example over on c/weirdwheels.

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

Wait, why not just post it to Imgur myself? Would that work just as well?

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

You could, but as I don't have an account I can't verify it works, could work fine.

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

Thanks! I’ll have to give it a try!

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

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.

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

It seems to convert gifs to webp automatically.

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

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

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. @[email protected] - 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

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

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

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

Just add a line like client_max_body_size 10M; to your nginx.conf under the http header

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

That's set to 40MB already

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

Hey it worked!

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

I'm seeing a still image. :(

Edit: Testing

Edit 2: On mine I just see the Jerboa logo. :(

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

It's a video. Or is it a gif with media controls. idk.

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

I’m just seeing an image too but maybe it’s just not loading for me.

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

I can see it using liftoff, it's Marge and the word testing animated

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

Yeah I think it's also a matter of which client you're using. Works perfectly on Connect and on the webpage for me.

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

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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