Shadow Hog

i am sick of new image formats, but i also acknowledge there are plenty still in use that are quite old. if something is "old", that means it needs replacement, right?

...right?

so, what is AVIF and what is it for?

its name is a pretty piss poor acronym, as it stands for, in its entirety: Alliance for Open Media Video 1 Image File Format

who are the alliance for open media? i'm glad you asked.

they are a tax exempt non-profit digital advertising & media group governed by many giant tech corporations like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Intel, Facebook, Netflix & more

they were founded with the explicit purpose of creating a new, standardized, "royalty-free" media format for the web, as companies were irritated at paying for licensing for available formats

now if there are some Brands™ i trust with the future of media online it's:

1. FACEBOOK, who actively lied about how many people were watching videos on their platform, destroying many small creators' livelihoods in the process

2. GOOGLE, who we really shouldn't be consolidating any more power over online media into, in my humble opinion

3. NETFLIX, lol. lmao.

don't get me wrong. obviously i want companies which operate the platforms we're all forced to use to give over input about how best to share media online. it's just that i don't trust them to do it themselves in a way that will preserve the ability for copywritten media to be shared outside of those platforms

aside from AVIFs just often not embedding on many platforms, including discord, in the opinion of both me and people who actually understand image compression algorithms, it's simply not enough of a change to really justify upending online media formats, let alone when webp is already irritating enough for artists and programmers to navigate around

remind me, who was it that made webp?

oh. yeah.

if google was so insistent on trying to make webp a thing, doesn't it seem weird that they've bandwagon'd onto yet another new format that's trying to replace old ones?

anyways, if something is old, maybe it is a good idea to replace it? which is why JPEG and PNG have been being updated for years

maybe we shouldn't leave big corps in charge of the file format media is displayed with online, is all i'm saying

I will not be tolerating any Big the Cat slander within my comments section and I will never post ill word of Big the Cat in any of my posts and re...chosts? My timeline will harbor no hate towards Big the Cat, I will be monitoring and blocking any instances I see.

All of my cohost followers and friends can feel secure that my page will be a Big the Cat Respect Zone. This will be a safe haven for Big the Cat and Big the Cat enthusiasts.

I just opened my Google drive and was like "why are these files all over the place? Why aren't these folders nested any more?" and after a moment clicking around I realized that Google Drive has instituted an algorithmic view of my stuff. Not "here's your files where you left them" but "here's some files we think you might like!"

Is nothing sacred

I know Twitter is very publicly showing its ass and is ruining its reputation for the one thing it did and now fails to do but like

It really must be noted that Google has been tanking its reputation in the 30 different things it had been perceived to do well. It is no longer a good email client. It is no longer a good search engine. Chrome is now considered toxic and bad next to Firefox. They killed their RSS reader. Docs is loaded with problems. Between Stadia and various projects before it, it is no longer a place to assume they will build a well supported platform you can release software on. YouTube continues to integrate Shorts in the most awkward, ham-fisted way, and that's ignoring the myriad problems it has for creators and viewers alike.

Like, Musk's ass-showing spectacle of a disaster might be more glamorously embarassing, but Google's collective failure on and enshittification of like 80% of their business ventures is undeniably just as terrible.