I rarely post memes, especially animated ones. But on occasion, they are absolutely necessary.

Thing is, I’ve only ever figured out how to do it… maybe once? How on earth do we embed gifs or mp4s within comments and posts?

  • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Any time I’ve tried uploading them, they are converted to jpg files. The only way I’ve been able to include them is by referencing images that are already hosted somewhere.

    I know that some instances have server-end logic in place to downscale uploaded images, or convert GIFs to WEBP, etc to reduce file size. I wouldn’t be surprised if your instance just converts all GIFs to a static JPG for some reason.