I used jif files in the 90s. Sure they were less common but they existed. Everyone I knew said gif like gift in the 90s. I sure other people said jif instead. But I’m not making this up. Your experiences aren’t necessarily universal.

Less than half of what I’d hoped for

You’re only gonna watch them once??

People forget in the 90s/00s both GIF and JIF were relatively common image file types. It was only logical to use the hard G for GIF. So that’s how we used it. This overrules all arguments of how acronyms work or what the creator originally called it.

Jason = jay-sun
JSON = jay-sawn

How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

The problem is trying to get people into “Lemmy”, where they have to understand federation and choose an instance, etc - instead of trying to get people into a specific instance. I know you don’t want one bloated instance, but if that was the mission it would be a lot easier to get people on board.

Art has no litmus test though. It doesn’t have to evoke emotion per se. Take that Geordi.