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It was fun while it lasted! (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lemmy and kbin are gonna get all jacked up in the next couple of days. It was a good ride until everything settles down!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IRC doesn't have gif support and let's be honest. Emojis might be an optional requirement for some people, but gifs are the foundation of communication for a lot of people these days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ban GIFs worldwide, TBH. It is mostly spam IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

as someone with sight problems, I could not agree more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

GIF support, no, but I think most clients I've seen have the ability to display Unicode emoticons, which would help for 99% of the image use. As far as GIFs, I guess you'd need to build an IRC client that does the same thing as Discord - display a "preview" of a properly-coded image link. Because certainly, it's easy enough to search giphy or tenor and drop a link in chat.

I'll readily admit the low-effort ability to react with an icon is both a blessing and a curse. It's sometimes enough to drop in an icon or two as a response, saving mental bandwidth but still responding.