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There seems to be a neverending supply of complaints about the size and reach of the Fediverse and I’m just sitting here thinking this is about all the attention I’d like it to ever get. This is fucking nice. Doesn’t monopolize your whole day, always has at least some fresh content, users are free with the upvotes and discourse is downright civil most of the time. Does anybody really want this place to be like Reddit or Instagram?
It’s unironically the meme of Donald Glover showing up with pizza and everything is on fire, every time I go on instagram.
I don’t know Hal…ima banned Redfugee and I really do miss some specific subs. I’d like to see us grow just big enough to be what Reddit was (as far as niche communities) during its first 5-10 years.
Make the site like Aaron dreamed reddit be like.
I’m not going back. I have gills now.
It’s a party down here.
We need [email protected] to reopen or start a new one.
Great idea but there’s a reason why people have a hard time getting the GIF train rolling
#1 being that GIF is turning into an ancient internet image standard that is sort of kinda maybe adopted and supported … it was supposed to be retired because it was an old format but it is surviving because of some strange attachment we all have to this format … and any site that offers to host a GIF is often technically not really hosting a GIF but instead a WEBM masked as a GIF … because to host an actual GIF, like the one from the top post of the highqualitygifs community … you have to load a 47MB GIF file from an image website (the same video file for the same or better quality could be contained in a WEBM or MP4 for about 4MB). (Don’t get me started on the whole WEBM / MP4 open source debate) The problems start in first creating the GIF file and to make it as high quality as possible while minimizing its file size … GIF is not very efficient are reducing file size … and whatever blood sacrifice, chicken entrails black magic you can conjure in order to make a great looking video file as small as possible and save it as a GIF is a dying art … and even once you get that magical GIF, you have to find a good hosting service to carry it and display it while also not severely altering it or rerendering it in whatever format is suitable to them because every platform has their own peculiar way of hosting a GIF … and then you run into the issue of which hosting site renders or displays a GIF is compatible with the fediverse platform you want to display it on and whether or not it will get displayed on the website browser or on a phone app (and also which app) or both or neither.
I tried creating GIFs before and it is like pulling teeth from an epileptic shark … and creating it is only the first step … finding a way to have it uploaded and displayed properly on as many platforms and services as possible is akin to trying to pet a rabid hyena.
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All 12 of us you mean?
There’s a dozen of us! A DOZEN!
All of them are my alt accounts. Sigh🥀
Hello me
hi
Heya
Meet the REAL me
And my misfit’s way of life
A dark black past is my most valued possession
Ads can’t reach us under water
No, this isn’t right. Fediverse is on the edge of the pool, just getting feet wet. That’s a pre-Reddit user on a platform long gone.
Like Fark. Is Fark still a thing?
[email protected] is, anyway. I see it in all sometimes.
Edit: Or do I? I know I see posts from the Fark RSS feed not infrequently in all, but the actual community so named seems dead.
There was some variant I couldn’t find with 3 guys playing some card game (Durak? Uno?) at the bottom, fits here better
B-b-but aren’t we the world’s premier source of tankie vs. centrist drama?
Mainly because we haven’t fully defederated from one another (yet), whereas most places (like Reddit) only allow one or the other.
I know myself
