To make brand new gifs: DaVinci Resolve, because it is super easy to add captions, and then convert to gif with ffmpeg. To modify existing gifs: GIMP
You can try Fedilab or a Misskey mobile app
antenna channels need to be as accessible as possible, this is a step in the wrong direction
In my mind, having a peertube account is only for the video makers, as a consumer of video you are better off interacting with it from another app (lemmy is so-so about this, but mastodon/misskey/firefish seems to work better) or following the RSS feed
Ah, that’s disappointing