is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

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    1 year ago

    PNG is lossless and JPEG is not. JPEG is about a sliding scale of “quality” (at the cost of file size) and minimizing how much it fucks with the visual end result.

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        1 year ago

        This comment was basically inevitable. Broad strokes for what the vast majority of cases will be, is my defense :p