• Horse {they/them}@lemmygrad.ml
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    23 hours ago

    the majority of instances would not be able to handle the load, leading to the smaller ones shutting down and the larger ones having to pay for increasingly more expensive cloud hosting, unless they want to spend a lot of money on upgrading their server(s) and internet connection

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      3 hours ago

      I don’t know much about the technical side, but have heard of jpegxl which may reduce average image sizes by 20%.

      Would such formats or other compression methods get implemented in lemmy to handle some of the increase in volume?