zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼ @ Zeus @lemm.ee

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i don't.[^1] but like it or not, chrome dictates what the internet does now. there's no point in sites hosting jpegxl images if ~3% of their users will see it, and there's no point in firefox developing a decoder if no sites host jpegxl. so even though it's objectively better, and is highly supported by non-browser programmes; it has no recourse for gaining traction on the web

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i personally have had no compatibility issues with webp - i would just rather my image formats are not owned by google, really. i would much rather use jpegxl, but chrome doesn't support it because it competes with webp and we couldn't have that, could we.

but also it's that webp only works if you convert to webp manually, i find. their automatic conversion just ruins the colours (particularly on pixel art). plus, i do actually prefer png. i can edit what i want in a hex editor, whereas i can't seem to do that with webp.

i have a browser extension that refuses webp, so i get served png where possible; but i can't make sure that images i upload are served as png for others

nah, i don't even really use tumblr because it is so painful to use. actually, it was their link shortener that was the last straw^[and the fact that they convert every bleeding image into a webp]. i'm just saying i don't think it's a site that can ever exist again.

reddit is just a link aggregator, that's easy to recreate. twitter is just individual paragraphs, as long as there are people any site will work. tumblr is so broken that it's used exclusively by people who started using it in the 00s, when it was popular, and never left. they're not really what i'd call friends, more monkeys in a zoo to laugh at. but as it's so broken and opaque to start using, it was never marauded by children; so everyone on there is in their 30s but pretending they're not.

it's a coincidence that can never happen again, as any alternative site would first be used by techie early adopters, who would be on average younger than most of the tumblr userbase. maybe we'll get another tumblr in 10 years though

i don't think there can be. tumblr's draw isn't any features it has (apart from maybe homepage customisation, but you get that with a website) it's the features it lacks (algorithms, etc). and it's the community, which was curated by a lot of coincidences at the right time.

you'd need to get everyone to up and move at once, with the ability to reblog posts from old tumblr. i think it's unreplicatable

probably? i'm not the arbiter of imaginary communities..

but in seriousness: i doubt i'll do them. i'm making these communities because nobody else was, and i want to see cool pictures, and i like trains & dieselpunk. i'm just getting the ball rolling. i will add it to my list of communtities to make if no-one does so first, but i'm afraid it'll be pretty far down that list. i'll create it though if you want to post some stuff

i used to ridicule people for posting on twitter and facebook saying how ephemeral it was and what's the point of putting everything in a walled garden. now reddit's gone to shit and i feel a fool. turns out it's not as open as it appeared to be

i really hope this catalyses many people into going back to their own websites and using rss. i know they're still not that permanent, but at least if your site host turns to shit you can pack up and leave.

yeah same. there are many youtubers whom i would have just left the video after the first falsely-cheery misleading promotion, whereas with sponsorblock i'll at least continue watching the video, helping them algorithmically and possibly allowing others who don't use sb to see their content

it's the same thing as "pirated copies ≠ copies not sold". skipped segments ≠ segments not watched

now if only they'd send it to me when i ask them..

when they burned the library of Alexandria the crowd cheered in horrible joy. They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes

@yurirando, 2022

i understand the schadenfreude of watching these awful companies collapse, i really do. i experience it as well. but i can't help but baulk at how much data is being lost. assuming 99% of it is worthless, that's still millions of ideas that are lost forever.

a few years ago there were (albeit obviously wrong at the time, but nevertheless) questions about "is this the last generation of archæology? all info is now stored forever on the internet" - and now, countless links go to a facebook page i need to log in to see, or a tweet that's unreachable because twitter's ddos'ed itself. years of tech support on reddit, and anonymously uploaded art on imgur. the work web.archive.org and archive.is are doing is invaluable, but it will never be enough.

i want to watch the corporations burn too. but we're losing something we'll never get back.

chiming in to say i'm currently running siduction on my laptop - it's pretty good, i like it

thank you!

how odd. firefox does tend to play better with gtk desktops though, unfortunately

you mean this tickbox?
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that's weird, i just tested and it works for me (debian, kde 5.27.5, ffx v113)

Oh, I’m only on cinnamon atm because I was having issues with my mounted SSDs not working in steam and valve wouldn’t help unless I was on ubuntu. So here I am.

if you have to use ubuntu but want kde, kubuntu is very good (in my personal opinion, don't use neon).

Are there distros that come without this shit by default?

not to my knowledge, although it's a one-line fix (export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1)

If I can get a damn virtual machine to install properly I’m going distro hunting. ElementaryOS has been my favorite so far.

good luck. i tried that and couldn't find anything i liked..

the qt one is much better. on kde i can use a portal to make gtk apps use it; i don't know if there's a way to do that on cinnamon, but it may be worth looking into

heh, i don't want to mod them either - i plan to hand them off to the first person that comes along. but i think people are more likely to add content to sublemmy that has content; so i'm "pump-priming" the sub by posting some pictures that i did post to reddit before, and some i found on tumblr

most of these are outside my wheelhouse, but i will do wastelands; and maybe portals & behemoths. aviation, landscapes, and starships already exist, and cyborgs might be an alternative to robotics. i'll ping you when/if i make them though

keeping this comment as a todo list for myself. it anyone wants to create these for me though that would be great

• imaginarytrains
• imaginarydieselpunk
• imaginarywastelands
• imaginarycathedrals
• imaginarybehemoths
• imaginaryportals
• imaginarysteampunk
• imaginarywarhammer
• imaginarydarksouls

not really. i got bored of waiting for them; that's why i'm making them myself

there are a few of the more active ones in the sidebar, or you might find something by searching lemmyverse.net for imaginary. if you make one, tell me and I'll put it in the sidebar

i'm currently starting up imaginarydieselpunk, then i might make one for steampunk. do you have any requests?

my dude, i haven't booted into windows in ages. but that proves my exact point: it might save one time if ones workflow involves a lot of tasks that can be scripted. if ones workflow is "launch photoshop; browse the web for inspiration; draw for a bit; close photoshop.", it won't save any time. especially due to the hassle of getting photoshop working, or learning a new app like gimp or krita.

depends how much you value your time. if you've nothing to do or just like fucking about with your os in your spare time then sure, linux is free. if you're, say, a freelance graphic designer and actively losing money whilst trying to learn the foibles of a new os, and just fixing the bullshit that win & mac do by default; then it's decidedly not

alternatively, if votes were private, you could spin up a bot network to mass upvote your comment; making it far more influential as most people are more inclined to believe statements they think others also feel. thankfully, votes are open, so you can't

as long as there is a system, people will try to game the system; and when there is a new system, people will come up with new games