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Why are there no gifs?

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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RebekahWSDreply
lemmy.world

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!

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

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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!

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There are a few, but not very active ones.

Lemmy world seems to have the most active one:

[email protected]

Edit: removed the obviously dead community

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lemmy.world

Because there are like 5 active posters between every instance.

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

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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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