ok so it doesn't like webp 🫩

Interestingly inline in a comment it works fine.

Your orig url:

Uploaded here:

Yeah according to claude:

When you paste an external image URL, Lemmy asks Pictrs to fetch and cache it. Pictrs processes it through its image pipeline, and if that fails or returns unexpected output for webp, Lemmy just falls back to a plain link post. JPEG/PNG go through fine because they're the "happy path."

seems like something funky in the lemmy universe where webp isn't properly being turned into an image post

The image size savings are pretty decent as well, usually 1/3rd of less in size with no difference in quality

Excé

Great, now I’m bathroom laughing