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.

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    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

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