I was just looking around at the code for Lemmy and Voyager and I agree it’s 100% a web frontend thing. Take this with a grain of salt because I’m not a programmer, just a long time tech guy, but it looks like Lemmy uses pict-rs as it’s media backend and pict-rs has a configuration to transcode images into .avif to save space as of version 0.5.
I uploaded a png so either your app or mine (Voyager) is doing it. I’ll investigate as well. With our powers combined we can solve this.
It’s definitely a web frontend thing. Apparently this pull request has fixed it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/3738
I’ll just wait for my instance to be updated.
I was just looking around at the code for Lemmy and Voyager and I agree it’s 100% a web frontend thing. Take this with a grain of salt because I’m not a programmer, just a long time tech guy, but it looks like Lemmy uses
pict-rsas it’s media backend andpict-rshas a configuration to transcode images into.avifto save space as of version 0.5.https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/src/commit/f5b8e4416734ef7ced86dba05808cb155fe243fb/releases/0.5.0.md#quality-configuration
Edit: I’ve just noticed that my picture uploaded as a
PNGand now I’m even more confused.