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Threads now has native GIF support, Glitch/Misskey/Firefish has emoji reactions. Masto should have both! (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by JustDalek_@alien.top to c/mastodon
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I feel like mastodon at times falls a bit behind on some features, would be cool to see if we can implement native gifs as per
Feature suggestion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25742

Threads has implemented a native experience which is superior than copying and pasting a gif using a 3rd party keyboard or having to hunt it down from the web
Ref: https://www.threads.net/@threads/post/Cy32ZRHOzuC/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

On that note, we are also missing emoji reactions, feels like we fall behind on the "fun" features

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[–] JustDalek_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, that's one way to look at it.

But in the grand scheme of things, can we be angry at them for doing something better than mastodon? Isnt encouraging competition the play we should go for here?

Natively supporting gifs is not something proprietary by meta, or revolutionary by any means. Its included in most social networking/social media platforms outside of fedi and even by some inside fedi

Giphy is owned by shutterstock aparently, and in my github suggestion I had suggested tenor owned by google as I use their API in other projects already

In my opinion, Mastodon has been behind the curve of this long before threads announced support. Hence the feature request I made some time ago lined in the original post above 🤷‍♂️