DarrenTheFoxcoon

Hey, it was a fresh new Lemmy community, just waiting to be Konquered

Agreed. Interpersonal relationships are stronger bonds then us tech dudes (myself included) tend to appreciate.

People are still on Facebook despite all their unacceptable actions over the years, because the alternative is to completely uproot your whole social circle (everyone all at once, good luck with that) or seriously risk cutting off people you care about.

Almost the same applies to Furs still on Telegram, though afaik TG hasn't ever done anything remotely as bad as Zuck, Elon or Spez

EDIT: sidestepping the uprooting part is what's fantastic about the Fediverse btw; compat and futureproofing between diff websites being a must-have from the start, and that's awesome <3

Link to the Steam page still works, so at least the megalist of Furry games is still there

Another option: multi-image posts

AFAIK there's no Reddit-style gallery feature for Lemmy yet, but you can upload or link more images in the description text.

Like this:

(image source: "Circle of No" by Tsaoshin)

For image links, just put an exclamation in front of the brackets. E.g. ![image alt. text](image URL)

AVIF has >90% compat., especially for most-recent versions of browsers. JXL is waaay less supported, but can be enabled with config switches in both FF & Chrome (and it just works by default in Safari).

Again, inclusion of software-specific image formats like .AI and .XCF implies someone added those arbitrarily in Pawb/Lemmy code. Hoping that @Crashdoom et al. can chime in -- if they're not busy, obviously; AVIF compat. is a minor nitpick compared to the recent backend & downtime issues

List of compatible types is way more than that, according to the Windows-specific upload dialog -- includes eyebrow-raisers like BMP, Windows Icon format, XCF (GIMP iirc), HEIC (x265 has a static image implementation?), Adobe Illustrator files, among others.

If none of those are an option on lemmy.world or other instances, guess that at least proves that Pawb's fork of the Lemmy code can accept other formats.

Google's AOM conflicts of interest aside, the switch makes sense to me. File sizes are still king, for both storage and for Web Vitals -- the latter especially matters on slower cell connections.

Though it does cheer me up how the "art software" and photography big-wigs (e.g. Adobe) recently threw weight behind JPEG-XL <3

By coincidence, I've had a "Santa AU" story idea for awhile just like this. Maybe material for a Blender short one day if I git gud at animation, who knows.

Furry/Anthro universe, set in near(?)-future. Giant high-tech factory at North Pole makes tons of toys. Huge antigrav spaceships deliver the toys, piloted by "Santa's" reindeer (All 9: Dasher, Dancer, Rudolph, etc.), split into teams to handle each continent. Dunno if any other workers, or if all automated toy-making. Oldass oil painting of the Saint Nicolas (also a reindeer) hanging on the factory wall; operation inspired by his legendary generosity, continued by generations of admiring reindeer (and other Furry species) throughout the centuries after his death.

Squash in as many holiday tropes and not-so-subtle references as possible -- e.g. The Guardians; Dancer makes small-talk about Rudolph and his girlfriend Clarice; maybe squeeze in Vader-San's Synth species cuz this a techno AU and me shameless simp; etc.