@Auster@thebrainbin.org @Auster@mastodon.social @Ashen44@piefed.ca I wanted to say thank you for your recent posts. It's been tricky for me to post lately, and your posts did a good job filling the gaps. Every new airhead makes us better.

I think your posts would benefit from having GIFs like this one. Lemmy and Mbin don't handle video embeds well, but the standard GIF just works across everything. I use YT1D to download a YouTube video as an MP4, then Ezgif to clip an optimized GIF from it. Typically, I make the GIF 250-360px wide and play with optimization sliders to bitcrush it to 5.7MB, Fedia.io's upload limit. If your instance doesn't support uploads that large, upload the GIF somewhere like Catbox.moe and make a link post to that Catbox GIF. It's more effort but it makes our most popular posts.