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

  • Slotos@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    You’re conflating “data” with “information”.

    Repeated re-encoding loses information. “The compression algorithm averages pixel boundaries” is a perfect example of losing information.
    That it sometimes results in more bits of data is a separate phenomenon altogether.

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      1 year ago

      That’s fair. Thank you for making that distinction.

      e: It’s still bad for the user, though.