Notices by Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click), page 2
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Monday, 17-Oct-2022 23:34:16 JST Paul Wilde @stux @andijah People please... donate to your instance admins! They run these services out of the goodness of their hearts and are true heroes!
If everyone on the instance just donated ONE EUR/GBP/USD... a month then it would go a looooong way to keeping the instance secure into the future.
Now...single instance users, you interact with these instances right? So why not donate to them so your contacts using these instances can be kept online for as long as can be!?
(to be clear and a little boastful, yes I do donate to mstdn.social, even though I don't use it directly. I also donate to other larger instances I interact with - I want all these people to talk to!) -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 06-Oct-2022 02:32:54 JST Paul Wilde @selea @thomasfuchs @Gargron there's multiple reasons 4k isnt implemented... one of the main ones is please remember the fediverse is not just mastodon!! other instances have a stake in it all as well, so things have to remain compatible
besides, as somebody whose eyesight is poor enough that 4k vs 1080p vs 720p really doesn't make much difference I'm happy with whatever we currently have
4k videos also use a considerable amount more power to decode... I don't want to be unknowingly decoding 4k video client-side... there is an energy crisis at the moment you know! -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Thursday, 06-Oct-2022 02:32:48 JST Paul Wilde @thomasfuchs @Gargron @selea a server storing one video file is one thing, having to store two versions, one of them being a huge 4k file is unfair - instances are going to have to start asking for higher donations just to cover it
4k simply uses more storage space and energy. I'm not saying it's inefficient in isolation, but it is inefficient in comparison to lower quality videos which for almost all cases are perfectly suitable
that said, maybe this is something the more media focussed instances like pixelfed or goldfish.social would be happy to do, not so much for conversational instances in my opinion -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Sep-2022 23:45:08 JST Paul Wilde Anyone else seeing @codeberg pages down at the moment? :blobcatsad: -
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Paul Wilde (paul@notnull.click)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Sep-2022 12:08:22 JST Paul Wilde @RL_Dane whut!? You telling me when I upgrade Evolution it's going to look and feel rubbish in a WM? Damndamndamndamn
I've considered a move to Thunderbird but I feel the same as you, it's much heavier... hmpf