I swear I’ve tried like 5 times to delete Reddit for good, but I always and up going back after a couple of months because I miss the webms, gifs, and story posts.
I know that Lemmy seems to have some character restriction that prevents super long story posts (which I think they’ve increased the limit a bit?) and I can scratch the itch with creepy pasta, manga, or SCP archives, but why does Lemmy have such a prominent lack of gifs and webms?
All of the gif-centric communities are dead and I know that there’s no restriction to that type of content, so am I just missing something? If you’re not seeing it here, then where do you guys watch gifs and webms?
I just search for them or make them. There are no specific sites I go to.
As for search engines, Qwant, Kagi, DuckDuckGo, and even Bing are all ones I regularly use. Google is garbage these days.
If you’re talking about a forum just for gifs, why not make one here?
people get so uppity here about lemmit but it was like the low nicotine version of my AITA fix
most of what you’re doing on reddit is actually giphy though if that helps; may as well get it straight from the source.
I made a post on the lemmy creators’ section almost 3 years ago asking if they would ever support gifs. Some commentors laughed at me. But the official response I got was that there was “too much overhead” with gifs. Basically, it made no sense to sense to support that format. But to me, they don’t support video format either if you have to go to a 3rd party site to watch them anyway. You get what you pay for.
I don’t have any answers but I’ve been off reddit for ~3 years now and haven’t found alternatives for a lot of the communities that I miss.
Part of it is probably “be the change you want to see” but if you go looking, there are tons of communities that haven’t had posts in years because the one person that was posting finally gave up. The most active stuff here is mostly controversial news and stuff like that. With no discovery algorithm though, I may be missing some stuff that I would otherwise be interested in because I just haven’t looked for it.
With no discovery algorithm though, I may be missing some stuff that I would otherwise be interested in
Check out these feeds of non-political non-technical stuff:
- low-meme: https://piefed.social/f/highsignal
- high-meme: https://piefed.social/f/highmemecontent
Redgifs
And verify my age. No thank you.
Huh? Last I checked it’s just a checkbox with no actual verification mechanism
In states and countries with porn ‘bans’ (which is increasingly becoming all of them) sites following the law require ID age check.
Oof, I’ve read about plans to do that sort of thing but didn’t know they were already implemented. Godspeed to all affected.
tenor.com is the de facto standard used by Discord and maybe a few other places.
imgur seems to be pretty centered around gifs. A lot of people only know it as an image host but for some reason a sizeable community sprang up around it.
Blocked in my country because they were asked to stop illegally harvesting data on kids.
