On the obnoxiousness of WebP (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by MalReynolds@slrpnk.net to c/artporn@lemm.ee

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Here we are with a community celebrating art, some of us might like to archive it. But no, inevitably it's google 'owned' transcoded, WebP. I have an extension to re-encode back to an old format, but that's lossy-lossy transcoding, not good. I suspect it's a Lemmy thing, but what would it take to get non-lossy here?

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[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Usually if I expand a thumbnail in my feed it will be webp but if I click and open that image in a new tab it will be GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

So, when I open an image in a new tab I get

https://slrpnk.net/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F36%2F58%2F2e%2F36582e9915de4e1ece7ec4021b21b268.jpg

Type: WEBP (document.contentType=image/webp)

Dimensions: 557px × 900px

Seems like it was a jpg, but now it's webp (and yes I've tried to convince firefox to not like webp, seems to be ignored.

Is there a switch the admin can pull to stop this? They're pretty nice, but I'd like to make it easy on them.

this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024

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