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[–] Ilumar@lemmy.zip 97 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (63 children)

Please stop making gifs at all. It's a terrible format that creates massive files that look like shit.

Webm is supported almost everywhere now and manages better quality at higher framerates and smaller file sizes.

[–] darkevilmac@lemmy.zip 61 points 1 month ago (36 children)

Counterpoint: GIFs loop by default in basically every app, WEBM doesn't

[–] Glitchvid@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (35 children)

Can just use avif instead, it holds an AV1 stream and acts like gifs/images do WRT looping — also very broad support (more than AV1 in WebM containers).

Demonstration:

Image

Edit: switched to an example with simpler decode requirements.

[–] fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip 1 points 1 month ago

on boost its a little slow but time quality.

better than most moving images in comments!

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