Will there be redgifs support?

Only because of ~~giphy~~ other platforms being shut down soon. No other reason. Just need a new place to show GIFs. Pretty important. Just normal GIFs.

Some communities currently just show a link which directs to your browser and it's not a smooth experience.

I just want that one of Homer backing into a hedge or Matt Damon turning old at the end of saving private Ryan. Just normal fun GIFs.

Totally innocent normal GIFs.

On redgifs.

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Just normal innocent gifs

I too would like better support for totally innocent normal GIFs. Is it possible the awesome 3rd party app creators can find a way to to handle these?

You can try Pixelfed a federated Instagram alterative but I'm not sure if it supports gifs yet.
- OK. but hear me out.
  A creator wants to share their gif on reddit 1 month ago -
  They click a subreddit, new post, link to a redgifs gif. Gives it a title. Done. It turns up in everyone's feed animated and easy to find.
  Now, people are dropping off, so they turn to lemmy, where the reddit userbase started moving. and now they're told to go to Pixelfed or tell people to install an extra app to view gifs as a popout, but not animated in the stream.
  You see what I mean? friction!
  People want to sign in, upload, done. They don't want to fumble around with servers and different instances and extra apps to add to the one they already downloaded
  Reddit killed NSFW content in third-party apps, so let's let Lemmy be the VHS or the Bluray, not Betamax and HD-DVD.
  
  I don't even think all apps supported redgifs. I'm making a web app and… how in the fuck am I supposed to support that website? Other image hosts have an extension like .gif in their URL so that's easy, but what about redgifs? Am I supposed to hard-code something specifically for them? That doesn't sound right.
- It is a still image on jerboa, and I'm referring to posts, rather than comments, to allow creators to share their work in some communities where a link to that domain is well used.
  Like highqualitygifs, I would assume. I wouldn't know I don't use redgifs that often so I'm unsure where it would be most popular.
  It would also be useful to have a "filter by content type" akin to RES's filters, to allow users to view only text/link/image/gif content in their feed when they're in the mood for only seeing good text-selfposts or ONLY GIFs of, for example Homer Simpson.
- Ok i've tested it and it works. Yo can upload on Pixelfed any gif (up to 15mb) and the link works 👍

Temporary solution for Android users.
- This essentially just opens the link once clicked, rather than showing it in the feed? So is almost the same as a browser opening and showing the content.
  I feel like it's important to reduce friction for things like this, for both the user and the creators, as well as making the feed look better as you scroll, so you can see GIFs as they are posted rather than links.
  Sync for Reddit was fantastic so I have faith that we will see similar features, even if not available on launch.
  
  You should try it, you'll see it's not that bad. It has an overlay that pops up when you open a link with it, so it's actually a pleasant experience.
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ensoft.imgurviewer
  
  I'm someone who doesn't deal with that friction well. I'm glad to see you pushing for this because I specifically skip past redgif posts because I just don't like jumping back and forth from site to site
- Checking this out. Thanks for the info.

I would not mind porn here, including redgifs
So long ad posts are explicitly marked with a pink nudity tag
Gore etc should be nsfl in a different color
And just offensive stuff like.. i dont know. A rainbow, could be regular nsfw

Unless I'm mistaken and I missed something, it's GfyCat along with RedGifs (which belongs to GfyCat) that are shutting down, not Giphy.
- Redgifs doesn't belong to gfycat
  
  Is used to, but they sold it, for some reason
- My bad.

What ever happened to WEBMs? Weren't they supposed to dethrone GIFs or something?
- What do mean? It's used pretty extensively.
  What people call GIFs these days are almost always not actually GIFs. GIFs will usually have high dithering due to it using an 8-bit color palette and an odd frame rate because the per-frame delay is specified in jiffies so you can't really get normal framerates (especially high ones).
  What dethroned GIFs was the <video> HTML element. The video format doesn't matter.
- Isn't that being used whenever there's a "gif" with sound ?

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