This might sound silly but I really do miss sending gifs. I think it gives lighthearted fun. However I do not want to use giphy or tenor api I would rather have a bunch of gifs self hosted and accessible on my home server.
Matrix has their sticker solution but from what I have gathered they can see that data in your chats. You can get a gif plugin but I am sure matrix and giphy can see your requests with it as well.
My solution as of right now is trying to host immich and having a gif album that is accessible by my users. Reason being is the ai may prove to be useful when searching for the perfect gif/reaction. I have ran into a problem though, I have no idea how to batch download gifs from giphy and tenor. It seems people don’t just share their gif collections all willy nilly like they do memes.
Is this the best solution? How would you go about self hosting such a service?
(And if you have large amounts of gifs… Can I have some 👉👈 🥺)
Sorry for the silly request for help 😂
Thank you all so much.
I dont think there’s anything that seamless integrate on keyboards or social/chat apps but you could try to selfhost a booru app and then share the hotlinks to those gifs.
They are mostly known for anime and weeb stuff but for memes and gifs I think the tagging system would work the best so you can quickly search what you want.
Matrix has their sticker solution but from what I have gathered they can see that data in your chats.
What gives you that idea?
As for options, I searched giphy scraper and got a bunch of options on GitHub. Have you looked at those?
I had read somewhere that matrix can see integration data like sticker packs. So while they cannot read the content of your encrypted messages they can see what stickers you are sending and reacting with.
I did not look extensively into a giphy scraper. I used different terminology that probably confused the search engine 🤦 couldn’t think of the word. Thank you I will look into it.
Couldn’t you use immich for this?
Can’t wait until this guy DDoS’s his home connection and his ISP calls wondering why tf his bandwidth skyrocketed overnight because of hotlinkers.
OP can use a Cloudflare tunnel which would take care of caching and prevent any accidental DDoS attacks.
