1. If we play the holier than thou card we get nowhere. Nostr (today) doesn’t work without the permission of many gatekeepers, and yet we not only seem to be ok with that (for the reasons of pragmatism) but we also made sure to spec out some ICANN DNS cocksucking with NIP-05 and stuff. As for your server being a middleman, that assumes the implementation would be server sided, that wouldn’t be an issue if the tool ran on the client side 2. That is the same argument lobbyists use to push for censorship of applications that “could be used for piracy”. Also nobody is concerned about IP theft over memes 3. That is why I suggest that client devs add support for TGS. It is a based, vector animation format built around lottie. I can not stress enough how little bandwidth it uses, how smooth it makes animations and how high quality they look As for using animated webp, any bitmap based animation format will look like garbage and/or waste bandwidth in comparison. TGS is the only format that is widespread enough that artists actually care about and have made content for. I guess we could reinvent the wheel and create a vector based “NEF” (nostr emoji format), but that would be just NIHS (Not Invented Here Syndrome).