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Why do submitted gifs turn into mp4 files? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by fucker@lemmy.world to c/support@lemmy.world

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Every time I try to post a gif to a community, it automatically converts to a video. Is there a way around this? I've seen other posts that use gifs, but I couldn't replicate it myself.

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[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not sure, but gifs are much larger in size than mp4. Probably too reduce storage and bandwidth to serve them.

[–] FedditAlt 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is sensible, it reduces bandwidth for both the server and us.

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 2 years ago

Yup

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 2 points 2 years ago

The posts that you seen the gifs were they by someone on another instance? Lemmy.world might do a conversion when uploading to them.

[–] quinten@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Have you uploaded the gif directly to the post?

Maybe try to upload the gif to Imgur and then copy the url?

[–] cokane_88@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

How the server stores, the webm picture format is annoying me, I miss jpeg