Post AXJ4YbPAamyrXf5Wzo by tkinias@historians.social
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 (DIR) Post #AXJ4YbPAamyrXf5Wzo by tkinias@historians.social
       2023-07-02T13:49:05Z
       
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       There’s an interesting linguistic thing happening where the word ‘GIF’ has ceased to refer to a file format and come to refer simply to short video clips. I just realized that most of the ‘GIFs’ out there now are actually .mp4 or other video files.I wonder how many young people even know that .gif was just a crappy 8-bit file format with patent problems?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJ4Yc7Tw2QTl5ov44 by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-07-03T03:23:11.691969Z
       
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       Ummm... Yeah... The view is skewed methinks?@tkinias You said:> I wonder how many young people even know that .gif was just a crappy 8-bit file format with patent problems?"Is", actually. "Is just a crappy 8-bit file format".Yes, observationally, a .gif has become somewhat synonymous with any relatively short, shitty, meme-ism, much like an .avi, but I would suggest that what you're generating is more of a Fediverse (mastotronic, actually) limitation whereby the user effects a download of the meme in .gif format and it shows up on your storage device as an mp4 file - this is not a limitation of the file format except in the sense of a #Fediverse (in this case, mastotron) limitation.The conversion occurs when you d/l the graphic to a local file system - and it is shameless.For example I save them through matrix since they retain their, as you put it, their "crappy 8-bit file format" as intended, instead of the fucking #Frankenstein bullshit that mastopub servers force - Mastodon, by the way, is already on its way out - the Fediverse has left it behind and increasingly, it seeks kludges to remain relevant in the #ActivityPub sectors of the Fediverse.Bye bye #mastopub and #Eugen's brief grip on the Fediverse and all the phenomenal emerging technologies that are largely replacing it in the world of #ActivityPub alone!Fuck that guy. He's a #simp bitch.#tallship #FOSS #DeSoc #evolution #matrix #noster #Diaspora #ZOT #Bovine #tapir ⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJ61OURmwr5q5qjDs by tallship@public.mitra.social
       2023-07-03T05:00:40.431531Z
       
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       @tallship @tkiniasUmmm... Yah, and there's no denying that Marina Sirtis's titties are fricken' scrumptious!
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJ65p6WmO7dXXm0cS by tallship@gleasonator.com
       2023-07-03T05:09:53.916508Z
       
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       @tallship @tallship @tkinias Succulent, even. She's s beautiful chest feeder!