The reason we compress is because 80% of people who view the images are on mobile and on a cell network. At the same time, many images are created with a ton of useless to the viewer information that can be safely stripped, and we can also apply fancy algorithms to improve compression (like gzip vs xz vs lz) that retains identical data but results in a much smaller size at the expense of computational time for comparison. If there is a demand for archival media (which I already asked about) it can be implemented, but so far I have got 0 requests or people pledging to purchase it. So, in summary, we recompress to optimize delivery speed and reduce your space consumption, also to ensure that if media includes any client size exploits they are negated on the server side, and to strip any private metadata that users may unintentionally have in their file without their own knowledge. 🐶🐾🫡