If someone really wants a RAW image of my crusty ass dog, for some reason, you can ask me to send it over something else. It's a waste of bandwidth for the majority of photos, which are view once per person, and never again. Nobody can host that much data for free without some big catch.
Dog.
Shit cost money for any platform.
Even Lemmy convert images to .webp?
I'd love being able to just upload my 4.6MB image and getting it reduced down to sub 2MB, but I have to do that manually because Jerboa & co doesn't do it nor accept bigger images than 2MB.
Am I missing something?
It's still compressesed on mastodon , I tried to post a 3072 x 4080 2mb jpeg and when downloaded from the post it's now a 2499x3319 500k jpeg
Depends on the server, and I pretty much understand service providers why they're doing it, although it would be nice to buy some high-quality slots from them, as a way to support them.
It honestly probably isn't worth it for them. They don't want the hassle of having to deal with two different tiers of image hosting, especially when they're not primarily trying to be an image host
Yeah but Mastodon is a right wing cess pool
Mastodon is federated and has instances that have varying politics
