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I said i understand that but why do they allow big gifs then ?
As an instance admin, I would prefer not to have users uploads videos or GIFs on Lemmy.
Why? Because Lemmy instances make a local copy of media hosted on other instances. Right now, without any cleaning, my instance has been accumulating 18GB of pictures since July. Imagine how much more that would be if videos were in the mix.
Lemmy does lots of weird shit when you try to upload animated stuff anyway, so I've just taken to hotlinking the images from elsewhere.
Easier on instance admins and easier on me since I don't have to deal with my file being randomly converted without asking.
Man, my Mastodon instance has ~800GB of cached media.
That sounds like a pretty big design flaw.
I do not disagree with you.
I get the feeling that federation, in its current form, is not sustainable.
Yeah, but people are going to keep working on it as it grows. Itβll become sustainable because of that.
Depending on the nature and technology involved in the "gif", gifs of the same quality are usually larger per second just because they're not real well-optimized. I think the issue is more the popularity+length+quality of the stuff that will get posted if you allow "real" videos as opposed to just gifs, which will lead to a massive increase in storage and bandwidth.
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I think the impact of big gifs is minimal in practice relative to other stuff that puts load on the server (even if they are, second for second, larger), whereas the impact in practice of hosting potentially-higher-quality video content would be a whole different ballgame
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I wasn't tryin' to say it to disturb you. It sounds like you're pretty much in agreement with reasons it might be a bad idea, so why so angry about someone saying back to you, yes those reasons might potentially make it a bad idea.
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I am not at all angry i just didn't wanna type it out again and wanted to answer your question too .
Caps lock is often interpreted as yelling/anger. In the future I recommend instead pressing enter a couple of times at the end of your post, and adding a section that starts with "Edit:".
Hmm i just wanted to draw attention to the edit .