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> Even small subs which used to be the place to go for deeper discussion have largely devolved into image boards targeting the lowest common denominator. There
by zyxley 10y ago
> Even small subs which used to be the place to go for deeper discussion have largely devolved into image boards targeting the lowest common denominator.
There's some black humor here in how the actual imageboards (4chan, etc) are heavily pushing towards WebM for short animations.
- fl0wenol 10y agoBecause it is likely that a poster on an imageboard made the video themsevles, rather than reposting in an environment that may only permit simple image links, it encourages them to save it as webm instead of distilling to a GIF (not easy to do properly, very bandwidth intensive on view), which allows the videos to be longer and higher quality while file size caps can be lowered. Mobile users are also thankful for this trend.