It’s literally a communication issue, and you are having another one right here. At best. I’m well aware of the drama rimu kept getting themselves into. That isn’t what were talking about. What were talking about, is a simple blog or community to post on new features and additions. And then civil discussions and feedback.

It’s your project, you all can run it as you see fit. And the rest of us are free to fork it or use something else. Something that respects the users more. I’d like to see piefed succeed. I thought you all were interested in that too. But you seem committed to not understanding why/how you’re impacting and even running off some of your most active users and their contributions. Or the problem with that.

If you are strictly a user, and don’t moderate any communities Etc the limit isn’t too broken. It is still broken. If you moderate any number of communities. This is extremely broken and makes standard community leader/moderator behavior difficult if not often impossible. I had considered at one point migrating some of my communities over to piefed. And even if I did it likely wouldn’t bump this quota for me. But this quota certainly is a good reason for me not to move. Especially the way it was handled.

Rimu has a HUGE communication problem. And this isn’t even the first time it’s caused drama. Had this been communicated instead of discovered. It wouldn’t have been nearly the issue it’s become. Had it been communicated instead of discovered. People could have given feedback. Had there been feedback there would have likely been much less pushback. Or maybe not even the issue at all. And believe me I get it. People of the programming mindset get into cycles and logic. Forgetting that that’s not what people are. And things that might make sense on that front often don’t make sense when you’re dealing with people. Until Rimu gets some sort of communication pipeline solved. This will not be the last time changes will cause drama. Or alienation of valuable members.

A former head exec of FIFA rented out an apartment for himself and an apartment for his cats in Trump Tower for years. The fact that the world still cares about FIFA is damning in and of itself.

No you’re fine. I just wanted to be clear that until it’s default it may as well not be there. Outside of my own personal pet projects. No one else would see them that visited unless it was enabled by default generally and therefore not very useful still. I don’t know how much longer it will take them to enable it by default. I hope not much longer. I generally like jxl.

To be fair, there are a few streamers that aren’t too bad. But they either studied or even have a degree in political science, or stream about politics almost solely. But yeah, asmeinkamph is very emblematic of the low information, xenophobic opportunists on the right for sure. Even when he was just a WoW streamer there was plenty off about him. Red flags everywhere

Yes, just not enabled by default.

Eventually. They’ve been dancing around it for a long time. Google tried to kill it.

Oh yes with respect to Avif you are correct. I was more referring to multimedia messages in general. But you are correct about Avif. That format in particular is not well supported a lot of places. I know Linux is probably one of the few areas it sees much. Windows is a much different story and I’m sure Apple desktops as well.

Sadly no. Most browsers don’t render static JXL by default yet. Let alone animated. I wish they would. Though for most things regular video transport streams will usually be as good or better. Honestly at this point animated image formats really are kind of a niche and not necessarily super useful at this point. Apng for instance when it was created nearly 20 years ago made some sense. Today now that it’s finally getting supported it doesn’t make as much sense.

I do regularly. However apple users are largely the bane of this. Apple’s support for things can be very slow and spotty. As long as you keep it extremely old and basic. Say h264 they’ll be able to see. A lot of apple mobile devices could support h265 but apple doesn’t. My last couple of mobile devices have supported it for nearly a decade. But apple enabling it on their mobile hardware hasn’t been anywhere near that long. Apple will hopefully have AV1 support common by the time AV3 is released and AV2 widely supported by the 2030s.

It’s just kind of bad policy in general. As someone who moderates a community or two. I tend to upvote most engagement. It’s just really a basic way to encourage engagement. It hasn’t traditionally cost you anything. And when people see other people responding to their posts it makes them want to post more. Etc. If you have a number of communities and you do this. It will quickly blow through your limit in this case.

To be clear. I think rimu has good intentions. But to be further clear. I think they also rush into things like this. Looking at things from a purely numbers perspective while neglecting the human perspective. Programming and numbers are very logical. People are anything but.

You say that like it needed to happen. Sure some people may be too liberal with their votes. Perhaps though those little stray upvotes to people who otherwise wouldn’t have gotten much of anything might mean something. Might even mean a lot. Some people are always going to have an outsized influence in communities. And you cannot have a flourishing community by trying to eliminate that.

I’m all for eliminating coordinated Mass voting. But I think limiting your most active participants is a shooting yourself in the foot sort of move.

Just a suggestion. If it’s too much work just don’t. Don’t worry about it, don’t fret over it, don’t migrate. You always have the option to just let things be what they will be. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless the whole point for you was moderating building and maintaining communities, and not necessarily the posts you make. If it’s getting in the way of enjoying yourself. Perhaps you don’t need it. I know for myself it’s something I’ve had to face a few times. Planning a workable balance between passion, obsession, and reality. No matter how terminally online we might be. Reality will always win in the end. I’ve absolutely had some issues with myself and burnout outside the fedi recently. But I’ve only stepped back. Not disappeared.

Anything Douglas Adams is generally goated.:-)

Thankfully the way it’s designed there isn’t exactly a lot of reason to do that. As long as the contents are accessible from the instance I’m on and they don’t have me blocked etc. Then what does it matter if I’m on said instance? As long as the instance itself does what I need?

In Pug’s case they are a mass moderator and poster. Which for them presents different difficulties. Difficulties in both growing and feeding the community etc. Very different from the average user.

Well that and society as a whole needs to find ways to give parents time and said tools to actually do that. But you certainly are not wrong.

It can get so much worse.

Sometimes there’s only so many hours in a day. And so ultimately you have to make a choice whether that goes into moderation and maintenance, or development. Also remember that the fediverse isn’t generally paid to be run and addict more and more people. It’s a service for those who want to use it. Many of which don’t pay but give their participation.

Count yourself lucky lol. I know several and they aren’t good people to know. But yes this will definitely make the new feeds a lot lighter. And traffic overall go down. Neither of which are great.

There’s only one constant in life. And that’s change. Take the time to focus on yourself and important things first. And if all this bullshit is still here in a few years. We’ll see you then. It’s always good to step back from this online stuff and realize sometimes it’s not as important as we make it. But yes I don’t blame you with all the different communities and not wanting to migrate then again.