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

    • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
      4•9 months ago

      No it doesn’t.

      This may be hard to understand if you don’t know how it works, but nothing is being converted. It’s like opening a .docx in a .txt editor. It will show you the data it can, and there’s lots of crossover in image formats.

      Sorry, I can’t explain it better without getting more technical than you can probably understand, but it’s not converting anything.

        • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
          6•9 months ago

          Sorry, I didn’t mean to be condescending. Glad it made you laugh, tho.

          I’m only trying to educate because most people seem to think everything should be a jpg or think it’s all magic (this thread is full of that), and this is one of the few topics I know quite a lot about.

          Didn’t mean to offend.

          e: rereading my last comment, I see what you mean. What I meant was it takes understanding of several scientific papers detailing the algorithms (which took me a bit to understand), and I can’t easily condense that into a comment online. Sorry for how that came across.

            • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
              3•9 months ago

              I don’t miss Reddit. XD

              You shouldn’t have to care, honestly. It should just work.

              I had to learn all this because I was chief designer for one of the main companies that came up with these formats, but nobody else should have to care about this shit. The fact that this is a post in 2023* makes me feel like we’ve failed.

              You shouldn’t even have to think about this.