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.
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.