hey people of the fediverse who are clever at tech and like run linux and firefox and do rails of ruby and shit

why is everything videos these days?

like instead of gifs. why do imgur and facebook and places like that some of the time convert a gif into a video? doesn't that mean it takes up more space? why take the time to do the conversion anyway?

are gifs a security concern somehow now? why do only some gifs get converted to mp4??? is this just a mystery or what