• Lem Jukes@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            Stamets, I hope this isn’t weird, half the time I find something I actually comment on, it’s one of your posts. Why is that?

            • Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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              1 year ago

              You’re not the only person to share that sentiment. I post a lot. Few reasons.

              1. To try and help build Lemmy. Need to have an influx of new material consistently or things get stale and drop off.
              2. To make other people sick of me so they start posting themselves which just goes back to point 1.
              3. Because I am suicidally depressed and the constant posting/reacting to notifications distracts me from my own problems long enough that I get to breathe without hating the fact that I am.
              4. I have been stockpiling stuff for years for seemingly no reason. By posting, I can justify my past memegoblin behavior.
              5. It’s fun
        • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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          1 year ago

          I don’t save comments often, but I saved this one. Trying to deal with this format is exceedingly tedious at scale

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      1 year ago

      bro it’s an image format how does it affect you in any way? “oh no this file is .webp rather than .png my life is over”

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        It performs no better than existing formats and only serves to fracture format adoption and usage with no benefit. In fact it has costlier compression, and currently has exploited vulnerabilities with a cvss over 8. If you have no techical interest in the subject, you could at least not be an asshole.