That's very interesting, and probably explains the issue I've been having. Thanks!
Yeah it's extremely weird… but I'm getting the feeling that these "instances" are kind of their own servers that are "friends"and subscribed with other servers? So maybe one of them refreshes more often than the other, or some friendships are one-way… That's just how I'm interpreting it based on all the info you gave me anyway
Strange…
Yes I can't see that from my Lemmy account, nor this post
Just notifying that I answered in the other comment on this post (didn't want to double up the same info)
Oh yes sorry, I have dyslexia and I read it as pieface LOL how embarrassing
Yeah my accounts are:
It seems like these instances maybe just don't talk to each other?
I used to love optimising images in gif format. I would make like 4–30kb memes and animations for my friends in Photoshop CS2. It's actually extremely efficient and lightweight if you do it right… You have cool tools like transparency between frames and unbroken colour blocks don't take any additional storage space. There's nothing wrong with gif.
The problem is how people use them. We take a live action video file and shove it through an automated converter tool that doesn't give a shit about efficiency and will do a complete repaint between frames and use 256+ colour palette. Then you end up with an ugly dithered overcooked piece of shit 50mb 10 second animation. Gif was not designed for this…
Yeah it seems very complicated. I think I'll stick to my Lemmy account for now, it has all my post history and stuff as well. I might retry Piefed again after a while to see if it works better, my account will be waiting for me. Thanks for the help!