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Some instances are under a fairly heavy load at the moment, gifs are fairly big files, so it could be that.
If you try to download the gif directly (copy/paste the url into the browser’s url bar) it will probably return
502 Bad Gateway
if that’s the case.I’m actually able to rightclick the video to play in a new tab without errors
It may be a problem with your browser or lemmy-ui, you could try with a different browser and/or open an issue on the lemmy-ui github repo.