Looks like Pixelfed's growth spurt is slowing down. Absent any new external stimuli I'm guessing it'll stabilize around 200K to 300K monthly active users -- over a hundredfold order of magnitude from what it was just a month ago.

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[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Support JPEG XL or HEIC/HEIF and I will join ;)

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/3102

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/749

here's your issue trackers.

I must say though, this seems like a strange feature to draw the line on, is it really that important to you what image format is used?

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes. JPEG is limited to 8-bit (which works well with rec.709/sRGB) and modern displays and cameras capture much more than that (typically 14).

sRGB has a very limited color gamut, and using a wider/HDR color profile (eg rec.2020) with only 8-bit per subpixel would result in colour banding.

I don't want to limit my photo development with poor color definition.

Thanks for the links (I'm already subscribed).

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Not for me but I can see how it would be for some people joining a platform focusing on image content.

[–] Gmork@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was under the impression that Jpeg XL was written out of modern browsers due to Google pushing their image format instead or are you talking specific support with in Pixelfed app?

[–] trougnouf@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Sadly yes. It's included by default in Apple devices and there are talks to bring it back with a Rust implementations. I think Google walked back a bit from their standard setting bullying practice with the antitrust lawsuits / threats of getting broken up. No idea if that will continue with the Musk administration.