It must be a limitation of Memmy then. Or at least I don’t know how others are getting it to work. Sorry I don’t know. The gif plays on my mobile browser just fine but just shows a box on Memmy.

It’s strange, I downloaded a gif to my photo and selected it as an image for a Memmy post. The post worked and was upvoted so others must see it. But the actual gif is not visible on Memmy. The gif does play on a mobile browser though.

I want to try posting a direct link to a gif and see what it looks like. Can you see the gif below?

It looks like you need to use the format:

![label](directlink.gif) such as: ![Nope](https://i.imgur.com/lov37J1.gif)

I don’t think it’s selfish at all. But yeah maybe make the suggestion and let him decide, or ask him if it’s okay for you to update them about his situation.

I hope he gets to that point soon. He is fortunate to have you in his life. That normalcy of talking to someone close can be a huge difference.

Personally I would not set up an email for him unless you ask him first or he asks you. It would be with good intentions, but I think supporting people with addiction includes helping them do their responsibilities, not do it for them, otherwise it can be enabling.

That instability can be really stressful. I can relate so much when you said you were proud and hopeful for him, and then something happens. That anxiety of praying nothing goes wrong because it’s happened too many times. I’m so glad he is in a good facility though; that is not always possible for people.

It sounds like you are already starting this but I highly encourage you to do frequent therapy sessions. That stress can really weigh on a person. Even being around those situations can cause secondary trauma that need support to process.

Do what is best for your situation, but I think having a more direct relationship is better. From the experience with my mom, the filtering is usually only in her best interest, not mine. You and your sibling are allowed to have your own adult relationship.

I think your post card idea is so cool. Keep us updated on how it goes. Keep your good supports close. And take time off or drop responsibilities as you need to. I learned the hard way that those heavy life stressors require a lot of extra time throughout the day, and keeping responsibilities to a minimum helps.

I had an ex-gf that would sit down for showers when possible, and sometimes fall asleep lol

My wife says I’m cheap, but idk. I’m not buying it

Wow, that’s a tough hand to be dealt; I’m really sorry about your cousin. I’m glad you could be there for him in those ways. Many people have little or no support.

And you hit a couple of really good points with giving freedom without enabling. That’s wayyyy more easier said than done and takes constant awareness. And not feeling responsible for their actions. I’m glad that you were able to take your experience from your friend and apply that, because that becomes a whole rabbit hole of “well if I had just done something different.”

Thank you for sharing that.

Thank you. It’s not a common acronym; I just didn’t see a way I wanted to shorten it haha.

Outside of this post with the link, people that search “addiction” would probably see the community. I posted essentially this same post in other instances’ chat communities, and made sure this new community was discoverable by lemmy.world, beehaw.org, vlemmy.net, lemmy.one, and kbin.social. I also asked that the mental health community lists this as a “related community.”

I created a community on vLemmy maybe a couple of days ago on a mobile browser, so it was working at that time. It seems like the last 24 hours or so have been pretty sluggish on a few different instances.m, maybe from the spike in users.

I think you’d have more responses if you posted to [email protected]

I found beehaw first, so I started there but then discovered that the admins manage the community creation there. So I made a new account on lemmy.world to mod that, and most browsed with my beehaw account. But then beehaw needed to de-federate from lemmy.world, so I made a vLemmy and lemmy.one accounts so I could interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world.

tl;dr As someone else mentioned, finding a smaller, low-profile instance to have your home account but interacting with other instances seems to be the best approach

That is odd. I used my vLemmy account and was able to search and find that community with wefwef and the mobile browser.

I haven’t read the entire guide, but if no one from your home instance has searched for a certain community on another instance, it won’t find it until someone searches with the full instance name to initialize the connection. For example, if no one from vLemmy has done this for that Education community, I would need to go to Communities > select All > search “[email protected]” and wait for the spinning wheel. It’s not intuitive, but after a few seconds vLemmy connects with that community and can now be searched. So you delete your search text, keep All selected, but now can just search “education” and it should become visible with the option to subscribe.

Let me know whether that helps or you’re still getting stuck.

I personally love [email protected]

I may be a little biased because I mod it ;)

I actually have more friends now that I’m in a relationship because my partner is more social and grows my sociability.

I think overall people may have fewer friends because we better understand ourselves and prefer closer bonds than many friends (quality over quantity).

I think the date is because July 1st is the beginning of a new fiscal year for many companies. I’m not sure why they may have changed terms of service, but my guess is that the companies are required to publish updates at the beginning of the fiscal year.

I have had a good experience with Post Images so far. The free accounts are more than enough space. And they provide a direct link to the image for posting.

That’s good to know. I just submitted a beta feedback for that issue as well.

Thank you both for the answers. I kind of like the screenshots you sent, even as-is. Just my opinion, but I think it could be released with a (beta) tag and users could give feedback as you research it more. The app is only available as a beta right now, so I would think users understand that things are not 100% polished.