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 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.