I have noticed that only a small handful of gifs will play automatically and within the app while scrolling through a community, but the vast, vast majority of the time a link is shown and you have to navigate away from the feed / lemmy (in the built in browser) to view them.

I thought it might be a limitation of lemmy / the fediverse until I saw the few above mentioned gifs.

Is the playing of (nearly) all gifs within Connect something that can happen and will come in time?

Thanks.

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Autoplaying gifs are in fact small sized webp files that Lemmy natively supports.

But I agree that a inline video / gif viewer is mainly the last big thing I want in a Lemmy client. It’s a burden having to tap to open them without any preview

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