How are you?

Let me put it this way:

If you want the highest quality for normal users, you would go with PNG or SVG.

While if you want the highest savings on space, you would go with something like JPEG or WebP basically.

What I am talking about is how challenging it is to upload PNG or SVG files without conversion.

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I support Fediverse admins choosing to convert all the images and videos to a compressed formats for sure. But I always look for the best quality if available.

Because it is wildly disrespectful to the original artist, coming close to you tacitly trying to claim credit for creating it, and makes it harder for people to find the original source, especially if someone quotes, crossposts, forwards or otherwise repeats your post.

It's thoroughly obnoxious behaviour, you've been told that repeatedly, by many people. Just stop doing it.

It helps the people who take the time to create comics we enjoy to eat and survive. These memes/comics are posted as adverts for their skills as much as they are for our enterainment.

We get free funny comics non stop. They get upvotes, people sharing, and exposure in return. That's the deal.

Why don't you consider links advertisements? And attributing only in this way leads to people downloading the images and sharing them carelessly, without crediting the artist.

You do not provide links.

Links get lost when someone saves the image, metadata gets lost when someone screenshots the image and often isn't preserved by the host anyway.

How is it more efficient to remove credit from a comic and add ads links to the post than to just post an already attributed comic, or to post it unmodified and put the links in?