I noticed that pixelfed.social, the #Pixelfed mothership, has a maximum upload file size of 15 MB which I guess makes sense if you host 241K users. The same reason I suppose mastodon.social limits posts to 500 characters. That's a lot of storage!
The benefit of being small is that it isn't a burden to support 12,000 character posts (this Mastodon server) or 98 MB images on a Pixelfed server, along with a higher image quality.
I just raised the maximum image size at https://gr8.pics to 98 MB. I also set the image quality to 100% from the 80% default.
If this matters to you, you're welcome to come on in and join https://gr8.pics!
Jerry on Mastodon
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