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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2207898

Did you ever hear the tragedy of WebP The Efficient? I thought not. It’s not a story the GIF gang would tell you. It’s an image legend.

WebP was a new format of pictures, so efficient and so lightweight, it could use modern compression to influence the web pages to actually load faster…

It had such a knowledge of the user's needs that it could even keep transparency and animations from dying.

The power of modern computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

It became so widespread… The only thing we had to be afraid of, was people insisting on using formats from the 90's, which eventually, of course, they did.

Unfortunately, we didn't teach the noobs everything we knew about compression, then the noobs killed the format by converting it to PNG and sharing that.

Ironic. We could save the web from being too slow, but not from the users.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ofcourse I know him. He's me

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kill him. Kill him now.

Seriously.... Please don't. Or at least don't ever share that shit back to the web. It gets even worse when people then rename the png to jpg and it's a whole fucking mess. I've been trying to figure out where the hell all those bloated hi-res pngs all over the web come from, until I stumbled upon this answer.

Just download an updated app that can read webp for crying out loud. Do people convert x265 to QuickTime too?

Besides, everywhere where I've encountered webp in the wild, the image url has something like ?format=webp at the end, so you can just delete that and get the original, if you really have to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It was on by default for me, but I'm also not downloading pictures to repost so it's fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Good damn it...

I've got jerboa, thunder, wefwef... And now liftoff.

It's like I'm going for the fucking infinity gauntlet

Thanks!

Edit: STOP FUELING MY ADDICTION :'(

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

And that's just the FOSS options

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oof you're further down the rabbit hole I see :']

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where can I get Slide for Lemmy? Obtainium cannot find it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What arctius, lemming,summit and voyager?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The first 3 are Android foss apps, the last one is a webapp. Arctius was known as Fennec before, Voyager as wefwef.

[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Also try Sync for lemmy and Connect

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha I have the same issue with mastodon and matrix apps

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A screenshot saved as jpeg? You're trolling, right?