Lukeso what do we feel about memes? like good fun? kinda edgy? or just no?
Alex@Luke YES
Mike McHargue@Luke All the memes, all the time.
Mark Harris
OpenDNA⚙️@nzlemming @mike @Luke I've been thinking that a co-op gif chooser might be a good idea. We want to enable people to create and share gifs but, they're terribly resource-expensive without the efficiencies of a shared third-party pool.
But I also feel that the absence of a gif reaction is a good nudge.
CautionWIP 🇨🇦🏳️🌈@Luke I like em if they’re clever or reference something I enjoy (SF books/movies, comics, animals, what-have-you). You do you! Maybe use a content warning if it’s highly political or rude. Folks here seem to like that consideration, I’m finding, but that’s from a newbie’s POV.
Lyons@Luke I enjoy things that are funny.
@Luke Memes are fun but rather resource-heavy, so best to be conscientious about how we use them. We'd hate to see nodes fail because we meme'd too hard.
@opendna great point, its it just gifs that are burdensome or pictures as well?
@Luke It's function of file size. So photos are bad but animated gifs are worse (and video worse still).
The most popular reaction GIF - "And I Oop" - is 4.657MB. That works out to 214.7 copies per GB, or ~$0.02 (USD) each on a cut-rate cloud storage service.
Your header JPG is 147kb, which works out to $0.0007.
@Luke On self-hosted single-instances, it may not matter, but the cost scales with users.
For mastodon,social today - 154k users - all the header pics cost ~$90 but one copy of "And I Oop" each would be ~$2800.
So, yeah, if we're going to have memes and reaction GIFs, we're going to want to sort out the shared storage server soon.