@ProdigalFrog Ahhh, that explains it, yes. So slrpnk.net is your Lemmy instance. And the other posts I've seen that were similar were also from people posting on Lemmy. Makes sense.
It's unfortunate. It seems to me like the UX for the interaction between Lemmy and Mastodon could be improved.
@ProdigalFrog I've seen this a few times lately, instead of linking to the YouTube video, which lets us immediately know it's from PhilsComputerLab in this case, people link to a page with a link to the YouTube video but there too with no mention of who the video is by, you have to click the link again.
Can I ask why? For readers, it's less information and more clicks to get to the content. Are you trying to generate traffic to your site? But it's not your content...
I'm old-fashioned, and sure I'm biased since I am a graphics programmer. But just as I don't want AI features pushed on me, I don't want AI to generate frames for me. The game is generating frames, it has all the info to do it correctly (at a given quality level which involves tradeoffs, sure).
GPU manufacturers push 4k, then 8k, then rely on frame generation to be able to keep up performance. Why dont we generate fewer, higher-quality pixels at good frame rates instead?
@[email protected] I'll be following this thread because I'd like something not locked in to a large company... but one of my requirements is it needs to be usable by a non technical person (I use Markdown files for myself).
In the past I used:
@ProdigalFrog Not much we can do. But now I know why, at least!