Newgrounds is considering adding activitypub support but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people

I'm pretty sure you're the most famous person to use Lemmy. Well besides Margot Robbie

Newgrounds is dead serious about preserving its content, even with the death of Flash. Ruffle, the Flash emulator, was created by a former employee and Newgrounds is a major sponsor of the project. The most important movies have been converted to video as well.

When Newgrounds adopted high-resolution thumbnails about a decade and a half ago, there was a big volunteer campaign to recreate thumbnails for the entire back catalogue of the portal.

Thanks to Ruffle, people can and are still submitting Flash content to the portal, in addition to web-friendly content!

yo, this is straight fire

fuck I started leaning to program in flash specifically because of videos like this.

Oh my god. I can't get the song out of my head now! Sweet Jesus what have you done to me?!

Love it lol. That banana phone song was a blast from the past.

Omg mine too (too embarrassing to share).

I forgot how much more patient with pacing we all used to be back in the 00s. Just trusting that the video would go somewhere and there'd be a payoff.

Looking at some of the popular videos from back then, people these days would just scroll away because nothing hooked their attention quickly enough. Myself included. We've been trained to expect such quick payoff 😭.

Fuck, now I'ma have to go check on my old deviantart account.

Its jot newgrounds if it doesn't end in violence ❤️

Not only does it still exist, newgrounds is unique in that it is a long-running website from the early days that is still being run by the same person (never bought out or sold), still has no ads (despite funding issues), still has the same basic focus, still hosting the same content, and is still more or less exactly the same despite some UI changes.

Granted part of that is there hasn't been any real pressure on it, but still.

Genuinely, it is the kind of thing that I would want to put behind glass, because it is an abnormality in this wasteland we call the internet. It's this beautiful little corner that has been allowed to remain as it is, unmolested by the terrible bullshit around it.

I assume the success of Friday Night Funkin' gave it some extra life.

Quick, someone post "Cascade" from Homestuck and bring down the entire fediverse.

Perhaps for images they'd have to federate just the text and a small thumbnail, and then just the people interested would click through. I wonder if that'd be enough.

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I'd love to be able to "seed" the fediverse through p2p hosting of some sort. I'd set aside 1 TB of storage and 20 MB/s for that.

What country blocks new grounds of all things?

It would just federate comments I think, you'd still need to go to the site for the media

Oh man, I miss that shit so much heh heh

Mastodon has a couple million ADUs

Those cost money too

Reading still requires distributing media