The article doesn't say that. The title is false.

That claim is not on the article. Did anybody read it?

Have you ever used cheats on single player games when that was still a thing developers put in games? I did, it was fun. That's why.

Of all the formats you mentioned these are supported on popular platforms:

• Twitter: gif
• Discord: gif
• Mastodon: gif
• Reddit: gif, apng
• Tumblr: gif, webp
• Lemmy: gif, apng, webp

That's why gifs are still a thing.

The fact that GIF is still a thing in 2023 is baffling

As opposed to what widely supported animated image format?

no offense

This whole affair just confirms what many people already knew, mods are addicted to power. That's the real reason they didn't leave.

[citation needed]

What’s with people pretending we are talking about pineapple on pizza whenever hate speech is mentioned?

Because some people (and reddit users in particular) use the strategy of putting everything in the same bag to silence dissent. All it takes is the majority calling 'pineapple on pizza' hate speech and now nobody can talk about it in fear of being called a hater.

Anything I don't like = hate speech. Got it.

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

Ok, I don't trust you.

DING DING DING. Here's Facebook's playbook:

1. Create close sourced ActivityPub implementation to federate with mastodon/lemmy and gain users.
2. Offer better experience than competition via exclusive features, reliability, more communities, etc.
3. Once enough users have been obtained, completely defederate from fediverse.