Is your feature request related to a problem?

Animated avatars are extremely distracting and not accessible. These avatars can show anything, including flashing colors, which is dangerous for people sensitive to flashing lights (epileptics).

Describe the solution you'd like

Add a reduce motion option which would show animated avatars in places other than user profile (contacts, chat list and next to chat bubbles) only on hover.
Discord enables avatar animations only on hover for everyone and it works well. Users can still see the animation without going to another user's profile, but only when they intend to click on the profile or react to messages.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Completely disable animated avatars in places other than user profile when the reduce motion option is set. I like the previous solution more though as hovering over the user or their messages doesn't happen all the time.

Additional context

This option is already available in the iOS client. Nevermind, it doesn't disable animated avatars on iOS.