I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • sorenant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    1 year ago

    I’m a bitter old man who dislikes inline gifs in the comments, is there a way to block it like I did with RES on Reddit?

    • ThatGirlKylie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Using wefwef at the moment (Apollo inspired) you can use it on android desktop and iPhone as it is a webapp and they show up as a link for me that I can then click and doesn’t embed it or inline it.

    • hitagi@ani.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’m not aware of an option like that but that sounds like a good feature.

    • dismalnow@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m a bitter old man who dislikes inline gifs in the comments

      I’ve waffled on this issue over the last 25 years, but agree that the option to show/block should still exist.

      First I was against it.

      • Mostly because it was change - cluttering my once pristine BBSs

      Then I enjoyed it.

      • Because it added some liveliness to the threads I read, and because I was in a smaller collective of folks that knew how to do it without being annoying.

      Then I was against it again.

      • Because the forums/boards because overstuffed with people shitposting ONLY animated gifs.