Here we are with a community celebrating art, some of us might like to archive it. But no, inevitably it’s google ‘owned’ transcoded, WebP. I have an extension to re-encode back to an old format, but that’s lossy-lossy transcoding, not good. I suspect it’s a Lemmy thing, but what would it take to get non-lossy here?
Don’t upload directly through Lemmy if you’re looking to preserve the original quality. That is controlled by your instance admin if you wish to have them change it message them.
Most people including myself uses a service like https://catbox.moe/