I had to look up what the news was about Giphy. Funny how there's an anti-Meta vibe in the Fediverse, but no problem using Giphy, which until recently was Facebook-owned. I was more interested in how long term the new owner might be (because we want our memes to last), but I think Shutterstock wouldn't mess with existing content, right?

"Augments Shutterstock's generative AI and metadata strategy, including mobile generative AI at global scale
Taps into a large and growing TAM in native advertising for brands seeking touch points with customers in-moment via mobile phones and communications tools
Expands Shutterstock's content library to include GIFs and stickers used in more casual conversations - GIFs have over 75% positive sentiment among consumers
Combines Shutterstock Studios and GIPHY Studios to enable world-class custom content solutions for brands and advertisers
Enables access to a massive user base consisting of 1.7 billion daily users generating 1.3 billion search queries
Extends Shutterstock's API ecosystem to include GIPHY's more than 14,000 API/SDK partners"

We're always the product, no matter who the owner is.

[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Actually yeah, you do bring up a fair point there. My guess is that Giphy just flies under the radar most of the time. But regardless, even with Giphy, it doesn't accept WEBP, and instead wants WEBM.

At this point, I'm just gonna stick with troubleshooting pictrs and why it doesn't like my files despite having WEBP support.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

👍

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does Lemmy even support animations now?

[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, you can respond to posts with gifs, and I think I've seen a few posts using gifs?

So not really sure why it's not working for me. I'd ideally want to avoid using the GIF format and use WEBP, which offers much better quality to size ratio. But for whatever reason, it's not letting me upload WEBP, and when I tried uploading the GIF version, it turned it into a video or something, with the play, pause and all that (which also doesn't work well with mobile apps).

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

All you have to do is to add ! In front of the link command and add the exact link of the file

! [ ] ( linkfile .gif )

[–] simple@lemmy.mywire.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem isn't the linking part, it's the upload part (to even get a linkfile.gif part). When I was trying to upload via Lemmy for the post, it gave the the "Format Unsupported Error". I've been digging into the pict-rs code (the service that Lemmy uses for storing images), which is open-source, to understand why, since it clearly supports WEBP images and video.

Interestingly, I've tried uploading the webp file to Imgur, and it's also complaining about invalid file type. So it must be something with the file? Even though it opens find in my image viewer and also the browser.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've tested imgur links too and they don't work. All gifty links have worked so far. Remember to not leave any space in the command.

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

TENOR works too.

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