It can be an argument if you want, but it seems more like a discussion to me. I refute the idea that gifs are horrible and obsolete. You even give a use case in your post. If I have a 1 second looping image I’d much rather use a gif than a video format. So I believe they should work on Lemmy. The rest of the internet has no problem supporting this format.

Gifs are extremely efficient though. There is only downloading and no decoding necessary to play it back so it has no impact on your CPU. If you have a screen full of 1000 GIFs then your CPU won’t start melting. Try playing 1000 video files on your computer no matter how small they are.

However, there is no reason for a 50mb GIF to exist. If you actually have something that is longer than a few seconds you should not use GIF.

Very cool. This looks like a neat feature. 🥳

Make sure to also link to Lemmy. 👍

I block all communities that post news. I’ve never seen somewhere to enter text filters like this. Not sure I’d want to anyway.

This appears to be from 3 years ago and only funds to last 6 months. Has there been any additional funding since then?

Interesting news. Thank you for the clarification. Is there any announcement about this?

It’s nice how fast Lemmy is growing, but I think it is a good idea to manage expectations. In the world of free and open source software you can’t just throw money at the problem to make it better. The development of Lemmy will occur at will whenever someone feels like contributing. It’s not someones job to develop Lemmy so it isn’t guaranteed to happen at all.

Edit: Just for clarification I’m not suggesting to not donate. I’m just saying donating doesn’t guarantee development.

I’ve never really heard of this concept as I come skipped straight here from forums 15 years ago. People wrote posts about things they were interested in and people discussed it. Very rarely did someone simply post a link to another website with no comments of their own. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.

I wish people wouldn’t use Lemmy as a “link aggregator”. Instead of posting links to other peoples content how about having an original thought for once. Why is Lemmy acting as the comments section for some other website?

I get the impression that people are for some reason uncomfortable with the concept of FOSS (Free and Open Source Sofwatre). Like they are not getting inundated with ads or things constantly asking them to give them money while getting something of value for free. They need to start inventing ways to bring money into the system so they can be comfortable again.

Things are working just fine and there is nothing to worry about.

People don’t need publicly shown gold stars to let everyone know they were a good person. You donate because you want to donate. At least on Lemmy.world they have made it known that they are doing just fine as far as donations go and if for some reason in the future they aren’t meeting those donation targets they might start asking.

Reddit? revenue? Not everything is about money. It is better that it is intentionally not about money. If someone wants to post their content on Lemmy they can do it because they want to do it. If they need a financial incentive to do it then they should not do it.

Even worse than the idea of trying to bring some strange monetary thing to Lemmy is trying to direct thought by rewarding specific behavior. This is a messed up form of conditioning that can basically be thought as punishing dissenting modes of thought.

No single instance should get to the size of 100 million users if we are doing federation correctly.

It should also not involve businesses or work at all. I don’t want to be in a bad excuse for a VR video game during a business call.