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Why do people still use The jpg/jpeg format instead of PNG for photos in 2025? (sh.itjust.works)
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Especially when they use websites like Reddit which allows for unlimited space for photos.

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[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Because PNG is bad at photos. It’s very good compression for stuff with large swaths of simple colors and such, like cartoons or logos, where jpeg compression tends to make big ugly artifacts.