Agreed. Interpersonal relationships are stronger bonds then us tech dudes (myself included) tend to appreciate.

People are still on Facebook despite all their unacceptable actions over the years, because the alternative is to completely uproot your whole social circle (everyone all at once, good luck with that) or seriously risk cutting off people you care about.

Almost the same applies to Furs still on Telegram, though afaik TG hasn’t ever done anything remotely as bad as Zuck, Elon or Spez

EDIT: sidestepping the uprooting part is what’s fantastic about the Fediverse btw; compat and futureproofing between diff websites being a must-have from the start, and that’s awesome <3

Google’s AOM conflicts of interest aside, the switch makes sense to me. File sizes are still king, for both storage and for Web Vitals – the latter especially matters on slower cell connections.

Though it does cheer me up how the “art software” and photography big-wigs (e.g. Adobe) recently threw weight behind JPEG-XL <3