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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • WebP supports lossless compression too, and is more efficient than PNG and JPEG. You can also set the image quality level in Lemmy’s server config, I have it set to 95% for example. I believe converting images to WebP (and compressing them slightly or losslessly) should be the default, and if anyone wants to upload the original file, they can go for a 3rd party image host and upload it (whether PNG, SVG, whatever) there. Or, if you’re sharing a webcomic for example, you can take the link to the original file from its website and paste it into Lemmy directly, thereby saving space on your instance.

    Slightly unrelated, but I just wish JXL was more widely supported, it’s the best image format out there, the only thing holding it back is software refusing to support it. Both Chromium and Firefox have JXL support behind a flag in their advanced settings.