↳ In-reply-to » @fastidious On GIF and potentially arbitrary media upload support... I agree we can do something about just accepting and uploading original quality media, which in itself would just magically™ fix/support GIFs too. 👌

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I just think we have to be mindful of how we approach this. There is nothing worse than a poor user experience with a “spinning wheel” loading up multi-Megabyte images on a poor Internet connection. Maybe it’s better in the US, but even here in Australia, our so-called 4G/LTE/5G is utter rubbish….

And not even just users, there’s some people like myself even hosting on such a rubbish connection…
I know the easy argument would be just “buy a real host” or something, but if we’re serious about the environment and ease of access for everyone etc etc, I think we need to be a bit more thoughtful than the usual social media alternatives.