Why is it that I can post the attached mp4 but not the source as a gif?
To make the mp4 I encoded the gif in handbrake, which actually made increased the file size but reduced the dimensions.
Source gif: 728*408, 785.5 KiB
Encoded mp4: 640*360, 836.7 KiB
@hitstun connections to mbin are super heavy weight, which is fine if it were legit people browsing, but the AI scrapers endlessly hammering the site with hundreds or thousands of requests per minute ends up taking the whole site down. I’ll try opening it up again and see what happens and try to block as many crawlers as I can, but it’s been hundreds of net blocks in the past interspersed with other actual fediverse instances. Let’s see what happens.