Depends on the server, and I pretty much understand service providers why they’re doing it, although it would be nice to buy some high-quality slots from them, as a way to support them.
It honestly probably isn’t worth it for them. They don’t want the hassle of having to deal with two different tiers of image hosting, especially when they’re not primarily trying to be an image host
It’s still compressesed on mastodon , I tried to post a 3072 x 4080 2mb jpeg and when downloaded from the post it’s now a 2499x3319 500k jpeg
Depends on the server, and I pretty much understand service providers why they’re doing it, although it would be nice to buy some high-quality slots from them, as a way to support them.
It honestly probably isn’t worth it for them. They don’t want the hassle of having to deal with two different tiers of image hosting, especially when they’re not primarily trying to be an image host