this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
487 points (99.6% liked)
Lemmy Shitpost
40432 readers
4345 users here now
Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.
Anything and everything goes. Memes, Jokes, Vents and Banter. Though we still have to comply with lemmy.world instance rules. So behave!
Rules:
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means:
-No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that is NSFW should be behind NSFW tags.
-Content that might be distressing should be kept behind NSFW tags.
...
If you see content that is a breach of the rules, please flag and report the comment and a moderator will take action where they can.
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
1.Memes
10.LinuxMemes (Linux themed memes)
Reach out to
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules. Striker
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
JPGs don't support transparency. Has to be PNG or GIF. WEBP also supports transparency, but it's got horrible compatibility with editors. There are other options that are overlooked for web like SVG, fantastic for a companies website logo.
Not sure what you are using. In Photoshop do not flatten the image. The program has a "save for web" and you can toggle transparency on and off. Better control than the "save as" and I think "save for screens".
More indepth breakdown.
i was using gimp, but then i moved to paint dot net. i refuse to learn it well because shitposts aren't supposed to look good and i'm in the "cut the magazine with scissors and glue it together to make a collage" era of photoshop luddism.
GIMPs got something like that using a plugin. Haven't used it myself. But heard it does the trick.
https://templatetoaster.com/tutorials/gimp-save-for-web/
I've taught this technical junk of print and web to graphic designers for close to 20 years. Trust me when I say not a lot of people understand the nuances and it's getting worse not better.
Not anyone's fault really a lot of this his hidden behind the scenes and you have to seek it out and actually care. Which doesn't come up often, until you need to optimize a websites load speed or print something extremely precise.
emphasis on the F