I tried uploading a gif for this post and it uploaded it as an mp4 file instead and doesn’t seem to display it either.
I saw an article about this on the lemmy.ml instance. The article said that GIFs are not mobile compatible and Lemmy converts them because of this. If I see it, I’ll comment it here.
I checked the post it’s working for me. I’m using web ui. Could the problem be with your client?
Edit: see this comment
I’m using the Web ui, but on mobile so maybe that’s the issue?
There is no image on the phone, but when I click on the title, it goes to the video. I’m not sure right now. I will check it.
My problem so far hasn’t been posting gifs, but instead seeing them. Maybe my settings are off but all the post icons are VERY small before i clock on them, and gifs require me to click the dots and go fullscreen or they just play in the tiny preview window.
We will overcome these issues in time hopefully. Lemmy is not mature yet.
Why do you specifically want gifs? They’re quite an old crappy format. Honest question, btw, I’m not trying to be a dick.
They are, but unfortunately, they’re convenient as they’re treated equivalently to images. So anywhere you can see an image, you can see an animated gif. Its kinda frustrating they haven’t come up with an equivalent format that uses an actual video encoding instead of literally just raw frames lol.
Yeah, I was thinking earlier that I understood why you wanted images. Hopefully the interface will improve to something more like RES (or exactly like it) and embeddings Just Work.
