@shel wouldn't any patent on gif be expired by now? sure would be nice if more browsers supported apng or webp tho

giphy plugin could be cool, long as posting gifs here didn't index them there. idk how that works.

@spinach hmmmm there must be a way to do like one-way giphy? like it uses the gif but doesn't send any back? Privacy Badger reports 0 tracking elements on Mastodon instances and I'd like to keep it that way and not report stuff back to giphy

but idk that might be their profit model so maybe they wouldn't let us

@spinach also GIFs are FOSS, giphy is not i dont think

@shel ah, i get ya. remembering back when i first touched a linux still and had to add a library for it.

@shel ack yeah fuck the convenience if so, gifin should be free (as in to do)