I’ve noticed this, too. Haven’t worked out why they only work half the time. None of the gifs I post in the comments are my OC. I borrow the direct link from search results. Weirdly, it still looks OK on my end whilst viewing on Boost for Lemmy. I posted using Boost, too. If you see any in my comment history that are now no longer present, maybe posting via Boost is the answer to the issue
The other person explaining is definitely right. Also FYI what you are describing is called hotlinking and is generally considered to be bad internet etiquette because it adds load to someone’s server without driving real traffic to their site (although there is some debate around this that’s been ongoing for 30 years lol). The “best practice” is to copy the actual image (not the link) and paste it into Boost, and that should automatically upload the image to your lemmy/piefed instance and host it from there.
I’ve noticed this, too. Haven’t worked out why they only work half the time. None of the gifs I post in the comments are my OC. I borrow the direct link from search results. Weirdly, it still looks OK on my end whilst viewing on Boost for Lemmy. I posted using Boost, too. If you see any in my comment history that are now no longer present, maybe posting via Boost is the answer to the issue
The other person explaining is definitely right. Also FYI what you are describing is called hotlinking and is generally considered to be bad internet etiquette because it adds load to someone’s server without driving real traffic to their site (although there is some debate around this that’s been ongoing for 30 years lol). The “best practice” is to copy the actual image (not the link) and paste it into Boost, and that should automatically upload the image to your lemmy/piefed instance and host it from there.
Thanks a lot, I will do that in future!