I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.

Edit: honestly I assumed it had something to do with Google protecting themselves from image piracy shit

  • lapingvino@lemmy.world
    2·
    11 months ago

    funny enough, not true. try saving a video as mp4 but not too long and without sound (!) and it will be treated exactly like gifs on those platforms.

    • ram@lemmy.world
      2·
      11 months ago

      I tried it on these platforms:

      • Twitter: it works
      • Mastodon: it works
      • tumblr: it works
      • Reddit: it doesn’t loop, video must be at least 2 seconds in length, not allowed in comments
      • Discord: not autoplay, no loop
      • Lemmy: no video hosting
      • lapingvino@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        sometimes afaik you could still have success renaming the file to .gif or .gifv I think? Telegram and Whatsapp should also work afaik.