• hitstun@fedia.ioM
    5·
    6 months ago

    This is a Floating Is Fun first: we have our first repost! This is the all-time top post on the old subreddit but it didn’t do well on Fedia. I’m glad this is getting a second look; it’s really good! This doesn’t break rule #3 either because it’s been over 180 days since we’ve last seen this.

    It actually really helps that you’ve uploaded a webp version here. As you posted this, I was busy re-encoding this Ambient Swim video clip to webp to see if webp files work as both animated and non-animated images. I’ll post it as soon as it’s done.

    • MentalEdgeOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      My posting tool thumbnails large files for quick loading in the feed regardless of client or connection. Webp is almost twice as efficient as jpeg when it comes to file size at sane picture quality.

      The source file is still linked in the post body.

      Webp can do animations, but not as efficiently as actual video codecs. Better than gif tho.

        • MentalEdgeOP
          2·
          6 months ago

          You should also be able to use catbox as the host for the webp file, and still use that link as the main link in the post? I’ve used this to post small animated images.

          Additionally, Lemmy already embeds videos if you link a video file directly, but some mobile clients have trouble.

          Supposedly, the next major Lemmy version will come with video upload support.