Coming over from boost from reddit, which only shows gifs in comments as a small square (tappable to show the .gif), I am absolutely heartbroken to see that Lemmy boost actually supports them. I’ve never wanted to see a reaction gif in a comment. Never will. It’s IMO the worst feature Reddit ever implemented and something lemmy should’ve never copied.
I’d greatly appreciate it if there was a setting to show inline stills as the target link, given that they’re sometimes useful and relevant to the discussion, and a setting to either show in comment .gifs as a little square/target link. Even better would be the option to treat comments with .gifs in them as if the user was blocked - i.e. not show them at all.
I’d support an option to collapse them automatically (and would probably use it), but I disagree that they’re a bad idea. I use them a lot and really like it.
If this was implemented, I think it should render similar to how spoilers do on web Lemmy, but with the title being prefixed with [photo] and the title itself being the alt text if set. Something like this:
[Photo] An image of a pot plant
(Image here)
Spoilers aren’t actually implemented in BfL yet, but that’d look like this: