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by nonethewiser 1179 days ago
> Everything is a trade off of course, if you’re looking to keep data size to a minimum then blurhash or thumbhash are the way to go

Isn’t that optimizing for load speed at the expense of data size?

I mean the data size increase is probably trivial, but it’s the full image size + placeholder size and a fast load vs. full image size and a slower load.