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submitted 11 months ago by Dadbod89@lemmy.world to c/ask@piefed.social

I don't understand, why are the next to nothing in terms of gif-based communities in the fediverse? I've checked lemmy.world and piefed and it only really seems to be NSFW gifs, everything else is mostly dead.

Is there a particular reason there's barely any gifs or am I just looking in the wrong spots?

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago
[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Oh is that the comments I see that have large blank areas? I don't think I can see the gifs on connect then, weird but good to know!

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I think so.

I can't see stuff from feddit.org because they have region block.

Can you see this?

Try Voyager or Blorp and check there too.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

I can see that, buuuut I'm using the web/desktop/whatever client and not Connect right now. Wait no. I know I've seen some gifs on connect. Maybe it's just that, some are blocked!

[-] Dadbod89@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah I can, on mobile using boost. Man even when there are gifs though, it's really inconsistent if they play, load, etc.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are a few, but not very active ones.

Lemmy world seems to have the most active one:

!gifs@lemmy.world

Edit: removed the obviously dead community

[-] CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Because there are like 5 active posters between every instance.

You only get pugs Jesus and butterfly posting their content, and news here.

[-] Secret_Music@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

That's actually interesting that there isn't much of a gifs community around here. I've never particularly noticed before either. Even that lemmy.world community looks kinda dead on my end. And it's not like it's a niche subject or anything.

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