(💜 Marielle) After talking with a mutual, I remembered a concept my system thought about that I want to test: how much influence you have is not directly tied to how many followers you have.

our reasoning is that even with a few (less than 500) followers, you can still have a lot of influince with how many unique followers your followers have (personal annecdote: this concept is why my system is well-known around fedi).

If anyone wants to help test this with me, please boost only once

you don’t have to boost if you don’t want to, though

if the test works as planned, a large boost count should mean the concept holds true.

Thank you in advance for those who help with this!

thunderstorms are fun to watch

for some reason I couldn’t hear any thunder

video cut, slowed down (from 30 FPS to 15 FPS), and transcoded from H.265 to AV1 using ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i lightning.mp4 -ss 00:40 -to 00:43 -map 0:v -c:v copy -bsf:v hevc_mp4toannexb lightning-raw.h265
ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -r 15 -i lightning-raw.h265 -c:v copy lightning-cut.mp4
ffmpeg -i lightning-cut.mp4 -c:v libsvtav1 lightning-cut.webm