I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • sorenant@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m a bitter old man who dislikes inline gifs in the comments, is there a way to block it like I did with RES on Reddit?

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      1 year ago

      You can use a userscript manager like greasymonkey to inject a javascript snippet that will hide images in comments which have obvious urls to gifs and replace them with actual links or hide them

      here an example snippet:

      (() => {
        let timerID;
        function onChange() {
          Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.comment-node img[src$=".gif"]')).forEach((e) => {
            const src = e.getAttribute('src');
            if (typeof src === 'string' && src.startsWith('http')) {
              e.setAttribute('src', '');
              const a = document.createElement('a');
              a.innerText = 'link to gif';
              a.href = src;
              e.parentNode.appendChild(a);
            }
          });
        }
        // if we have many mution events, wait until the site has settled
        function delayed_onChange() {
      	  clearTimeout(timerID);
      	  timerID = setTimeout(onChange, 500);
        }
        function init() {
      	  // start observer
      	  new MutationObserver(delayed_onChange).observe(document.body, {
      	    attributes: false,
      	    childList: true,
      	    subtree: true,
      	  });
      	  delayed_onChange();
        }
        setTimeout(init, 500);
      })();
      
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      1 year ago

      I’m not aware of an option like that but that sounds like a good feature.

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      1 year ago

      Using wefwef at the moment (Apollo inspired) you can use it on android desktop and iPhone as it is a webapp and they show up as a link for me that I can then click and doesn’t embed it or inline it.

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      1 year ago

      I’m a bitter old man who dislikes inline gifs in the comments

      I’ve waffled on this issue over the last 25 years, but agree that the option to show/block should still exist.

      First I was against it.

      • Mostly because it was change - cluttering my once pristine BBSs

      Then I enjoyed it.

      • Because it added some liveliness to the threads I read, and because I was in a smaller collective of folks that knew how to do it without being annoying.

      Then I was against it again.

      • Because the forums/boards because overstuffed with people shitposting ONLY animated gifs.