• MentalEdgeOP
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    6 months ago

    My posting tool thumbnails large files for quick loading in the feed regardless of client or connection. Webp is almost twice as efficient as jpeg when it comes to file size at sane picture quality.

    The source file is still linked in the post body.

    Webp can do animations, but not as efficiently as actual video codecs. Better than gif tho.

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        You should also be able to use catbox as the host for the webp file, and still use that link as the main link in the post? I’ve used this to post small animated images.

        Additionally, Lemmy already embeds videos if you link a video file directly, but some mobile clients have trouble.

        Supposedly, the next major Lemmy version will come with video upload support.