mastodon really is something huh
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101013758329615217
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@emilis
An emoji file-size limit is not an inherently bad idea, but 50kb is ridiculously small for something that tries to be modern and compete with the likes of Twitter.
@alyx@gameliberty.club "modern"
I mean other fedi software has limits on size of stuff to be accepted. But jesus christ, 50kb.
50 fucking kb.
@alyx@gameliberty.club Worse than that, mastodon doesn't even support svg emoji!
@emilis
Now that's stupid... Honestly, my biggest pet peeve when it comes to the internet is that we still rely on antiquated and inherently bad technologies like jpeg, gif and mp3.
@alyx @emilis There isn't really even a reason for it other than it's what normies already know
Opus/Vorbis are better than mp3
Webp is better than png/gif/jpeg
People just don't use them, even reincode ogg files from jewtube into mp3 just for the sake of it
Everything already supports webp (and the C api is comfy enough there's no excuse for anything not to support it), but software like mastadon just don't include it in some list and don't like it for no fucking good reason
800kb lossless webp vs 1.4mb png. Retarded garbage. Compressing raw image data with more modern compression algorithms actually do better than png. Garbage 90s tech. 1.9mb farbfeld bzip2 vs 2.6mb png and 1.3mb webp
@applejack @emilis
I never messed around with lossless webp. When it comes to lossless, I just assumed there wouldn't be much difference, so I never tried anything other than .png.I will have to check for myself.
Of the newer codecs I've experimented with, opus is my favorite right now. I convert my FLACs into opus for music on the go. I've been amazed how good it is, even though music wasn't even it's main focus.