Actually yeah, you do bring up a fair point there. My guess is that Giphy just flies under the radar most of the time. But regardless, even with Giphy, it doesn't accept WEBP, and instead wants WEBM.
At this point, I'm just gonna stick with troubleshooting pictrs and why it doesn't like my files despite having WEBP support.
The problem isn't the linking part, it's the upload part (to even get a linkfile.gif part). When I was trying to upload via Lemmy for the post, it gave the the "Format Unsupported Error". I've been digging into the pict-rs code (the service that Lemmy uses for storing images), which is open-source, to understand why, since it clearly supports WEBP images and video.
Interestingly, I've tried uploading the webp file to Imgur, and it's also complaining about invalid file type. So it must be something with the file? Even though it opens find in my image viewer and also the browser.
Well, you can respond to posts with gifs, and I think I've seen a few posts using gifs?
So not really sure why it's not working for me. I'd ideally want to avoid using the GIF format and use WEBP, which offers much better quality to size ratio. But for whatever reason, it's not letting me upload WEBP, and when I tried uploading the GIF version, it turned it into a video or something, with the play, pause and all that (which also doesn't work well with mobile apps).
I've come across a few comments (back on Reddit) where people argued that Sam would've been a better pick for the role as he does more in the movies, and yeah in the movies Frodo is a little more fragile, but in the books he does do more.
I suppose the main drive of the meme is that some downplay Frodo's role, whereas I think he is a good character and has his moments.
By having more instances and better user distribution.
Running a small-ish instance isn't very expensive, around 5-10 euro a month (some VPS providers are cheaper, etc). As Lemmy development continues, and more optimizations come in, these smaller lemmy instances will be able to support more users.
There is also a discussion on GitHub to introduce user and community migrations between instances. So once that feature is implemented, it will be easier to redistribute everything across all Lemmy instances.