If you put a direct link to a gif or video as the “link” of your post, I think it embeds automatically. But Lemmy right now does not support uploading videos directly.

Pictrs removes Exif data, yes. Most likely it removed the rotation data as well.

Not all “fun driving” is reckless driving. Endangering other people is never right of course. But the majority of people with car hobbies are very safe drivers.

If driving is not really your interest, that’s totally fine. I don’t personally see much appeal to it either. But that doesn’t mean you should yuck other people’s yum.

If the goal is to completely phase out ICE vehicles, shouldn’t we be welcoming technology like this? Some people are eager to embrace electric vehicles, which is great. Other people are more hesitant for many reasons.

If someone doesn’t want to buy an electric car because they’d have to give up a manual transmission (which many people prefer), this technology might change their mind. More people would buy electric cars.

And if you don’t really care about having a manual transmission in your car, then you can just ignore this technology altogether and buy a regular EV. Which is exactly why this article comes across so strangely - the author is complaining about tech that doesn’t really affect them whatsoever.

The author of this article just seems to fundamentally misunderstand (or deliberately ignore) why people like to drive. Just a lot of, “I don’t like it so nobody should.”

Kbin, Mastodon, Peertube, anything in the Fediverse adheres to ActivityPub standard, which is the protocol that all of these sites use to communicate.

This infographic can explain better than I can:

Not a stupid question at all!

Right now, lemmy.ml is the biggest Lemmy instance and the “flagship” site. There are several other Lemmy instances across the internet. They are all connected with each other - or “federated” - meaning each instance can see all of the posts of any instance it’s federated with. Since every instance is federated with each other, you will get the same content no matter where your account is. So even though you are on lemmy.world, you can see everything that is posted to lemmy.ml.

E.g. even though I’m from lemm.ee, i still saw your post!!

Or: ✅ are you a parent who gives their child permission to access this site?

This reminds me of those website ads that’d tell you to ask your parents first.

I pretty much completely cut news out months ago and my mental health has improved immensely. I totally get the importance staying knowledgeable and up to date on world news, but it was just too much for me.

There is a dark mode! I enabled it in the user settings, it’s called “darkly” (unless lemmy.world doesn’t have it?)

From what I understand the Lemmy backend doesn’t support user specific websocket updates. So your client can subscribe to updates about ALL new posts coming in, but it can’t get updates on only your subscribed communities.