oh man over 20 minutes. but in my defense I wasted time trying to do it on Gimp before I switched to a hacky approach. comment OP is right, I gotta optimize my workflow too.
FWIW the number of Active Users on Lemmy + KBin has levelled off recently: fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse(i.e. maybe we’ve stopped losing users from the summer influx? Or maybe lurkers are now commenting more?)