Trying both the Twitter version (not compressed by Handbrake because Twitter hates that??) and the compressed version is the same. Maybe Mastodon interprets a video as a gif (even though it's still video) if it's under a certain length and has no audio channel??
why is modern web, this
@Taylor And Mastodon actually does the /opposite/ it turns GIFs into MP4s.
And then has the audacity to /still call them GIFs/.
@Taylor "GIF" /that's not a GIF!!!/ "GIF" does not mean "short video clip" GIF means GIF!
Discord does it too and it drives me up a wall.