How to make a post with a GIF actually post the gif when viewing through lemmy-ui
Whenever I make a post with a link to a gif as the URL, the post on clients like Sync, Liftoff, and Photon all actually show the .gif file in the post so it will play correctly. Whenever I view the post on lemmy-ui (the basic UI) though, sometimes it has some .webm file that was created on the original instance, and to actually get the gif to play you have to click on that or click on the link to the original website. How do I get the behavior on other clients to be the same for lemmy-ui, so the gifs will actually play? it
Nothing except that it's a horribly obsolete, bloated, barely compressed format with shit quality that's misused for a completely different purpose than what it's meant for.
When I download gifs of stuff I can't find anywhere else, I convert them to mp4. A 50 MB gif turns into a 300 kB mp4.