I’ve noticed that on Lemmy there aren’t really any videos/gifs as I scroll. I just see post titles, links, or images.

Is there a reason videos and gifs aren’t showing up on my feed?

  • igorlogius@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can use a userscript manager like greasymonkey to inject a javascript snippet that will hide images in comments which have obvious urls to gifs and replace them with actual links or hide them

    here an example snippet:

    (() => {
      let timerID;
      function onChange() {
        Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.comment-node img[src$=".gif"]')).forEach((e) => {
          const src = e.getAttribute('src');
          if (typeof src === 'string' && src.startsWith('http')) {
            e.setAttribute('src', '');
            const a = document.createElement('a');
            a.innerText = 'link to gif';
            a.href = src;
            e.parentNode.appendChild(a);
          }
        });
      }
      // if we have many mution events, wait until the site has settled
      function delayed_onChange() {
    	  clearTimeout(timerID);
    	  timerID = setTimeout(onChange, 500);
      }
      function init() {
    	  // start observer
    	  new MutationObserver(delayed_onChange).observe(document.body, {
    	    attributes: false,
    	    childList: true,
    	    subtree: true,
    	  });
    	  delayed_onChange();
      }
      setTimeout(init, 500);
    })();