I don’t know what a .webp file is but I don’t like it. They’re like a filthy prank version of the image/gif you’re looking for. They make you jump through all these hoops to find the original versions of the files that you can actually do anything with.

    • ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi
      21·
      1 year ago

      Everytime a post gets displayed on a screen, it got transferred over a dozen routers, parsed by a network card, decoded byte by byte to get each pixel’s color and then displayed on screen

      Transferring and decoding all that extra data on millions of computers isn’t free

      When you make an instagram post that gets seen by millions of people it’s absolutely not negligible to use webp vs a jpg

      People need to start using newer file format for real now. It’s been 20 years

      • ...m...@ttrpg.network
        11·
        1 year ago

        …PNGs took about twenty-five years to achieve ubiquitous support across consumer software…