The experience from Brazil suggests that the viable 'post-twitter' is BlueSky. So one corporate-controlled platform that starts out okay and gets steadily worse is replaced by another, and the cycle continues.
I don't think there is a viable 'post-reddit' unfortunately , because they built up their userbase at a time when people would actually want to use a link aggregator, before the experience of clicking any external links became fraught and exhausting. So now reddit has the userbase, and they have the means to host images and videos internally, and none of the bots or the lack of API or the general weirdness of the place is enough to get people to leave. Potential competitors assume that they should offer an alternative link aggregator, whereas really the only competitor is something that could magically offer a comparable userbase size.
Yeah (well, nerds anyway). With Lemmy, if you do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://lemmy.wtf/c/gametrailers/followers | jq . it tells you there's 68 but not who they are. With PeerTube you can do curl --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://peertube.wtf/video-channels/startgametrailers/followers?page=1 | jq . and it provides names (including me and you and a bot from leaf.dance)
It's perhaps worth mentioning that - unlike Lemmy - PeerTube makes subscriber info public. I mean, it's no great secret that I've subbed to your channel at !startgametrailers@peertube.wtf, but it's the kind of thing that some people care about.
I think I've finally fully mourned the loss of the 'Marathon' name to the clearly inferior 'Snickers' - bring 'em back at the size Marathons bars were, that'd be a thing!
And, also unfortunately, he apparently has some fans here based on the downvotes.
Maybe, but every video (or any animated format, really), gets downvoted on Lemmy. At the minute, this vid has the same number of downvotes as 'Why Aren't Swing Wing Aircraft Made Any More?'. A link to a remote site, that's known for serving ads and for being a pain to get back from on mobile, is going to attract downvotes. Some of it depends on how engaging (or not) various front-ends make this kind of content - a comparison between what anyone using lemmy-ui sees and what I see:
Just a temporary thing with Lemmy I think - PeerTube (like Lemmy and Mastodon) are already part of the fediverse. You used to be able to successfully subscribe to PeerTube channels from Lemmy (when it was on 0.18), and likely will be able to in future (it's just a Lemmy bug that needs a fix).
Of course, since it's federated, it means other platforms like PieFed, MBIN and Mastodon can access the same stuff, so you don't need to register anywhere if you're on one of them.
This is like when supermarkets put the short-dated food in the 'reduced' section: I kinda always expect it to be 'was £3, now 30p', but it's usually 'was £3, now £2.89'
£390 is so close to the retail price for new, that if was going to get one, I'd probably just do that.
I think it's just a desire to indicate some uncertainty about something (like - I'm not an expert, my opinion on whatever could change with time or new information). A full stop seems arrogant somehow.
I realise it's not a good impulse and mostly resist. Mostly ...
(that last one's nothing to do with the above reasoning, it's just a line from Aliens that's stuck in my head).
You can set a gif's FPS yeah. There's an app called gif.ski that lets you play around with this - add a folder full of PNGs to it and render a gif. The lowest the UI lets you select for FPS is 1 - I made one and stuck it here so you can see what that looks like.
You can use the same tool on the command line if you want a half frame per second rate, e.g.: gifski --output interesting.gif --fps 0.5 --quality 70 *.png
Crikey - it was only added a few hours ago and it's already all kicking off on their GitHub's Issues page.