priyanka🦉
@priyanka
if you're an artist on farcaster, pivot back to twitter.
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niftytime
@niftytime.eth
curious why? not an artist, but as a collector this app doesn't make it easy to share work in a way that looks great at all. gif support is really lacking too
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priyanka🦉
@priyanka
hi! i shared detailed feedback with dan, but here's a gist of it. - media quality still needs big improvements - collectors still on twitter (many joined fc and left last year) - art platforms are not building on fc (manifold, transient, superrare) - hyper financialization seems to have killed organic interaction - most active users aren't into art (users are hungry for lifestyle content over art) - recent creator focus changes give very instagram/tiktok vibes. feels like moving away from what made fc different (artists != creators) - artist friends already left/have one foot out the door it genuinely hurt to even write my original cast because i hate what twitter has become over the last few years, and i've tried to be so patient to ride out the lull with everyone else here and engage with new fun things going on on fc, but right now some of us need to focus elsewhere to survive financially. 🥲 cc @gracealmera @dijaraj @popszi @architsharma.eth (tagging since u asked why i said so)
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Goksu Toprak
@gt
Can you actually expand on what you refer as "media quality" here? What does Twitter do better here than Farcaster specifically?
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priyanka🦉
@priyanka
hii! i cant reply in detail atm but i’ll be back with my reply later today. maybe @rodrigobardin @niftytime.eth @bombaymalayali can chime in in the meanwhile 👉🏽👈🏽
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Rodrigo Bardin
@rodrigobardin
hey @gt chiming in. practical example. i can upload a +20mb image to twitter, 6000x6000. The app will bring it down to 4k (i think the max would be 4096px for the largest side of the image) and optimise it a bit. but everything looks smooth, no banding (or extremely minimal). you can zoom in, rotate on mobile for landscape view etc. neat. it's been like this since at least 2021. but... nothing compares to FC's compression, which apart from colour banding, also introduces pixelation. Does the 10mb upload still apply? Also, not consistent display between desktop/web and mobile app; when in the feed, more compression seems to be applied. for comparison - OG image uploaded to Twitter is 11mb compared to FC created file at 3,9mb and around 3000px height. Both uploaded via desktop: https://x.com/rbardin/status/1942903356735078692/photo/1 https://farcaster.xyz/rodrigobardin/0x44629aee i've checked my settings. i've also got examples with choppy GIF rendering.
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Goksu Toprak
@gt
Thanks for the detailed specs. Is your main point around when image is pressed the compression is still to heavy on full-screen mode? Because on feed renders — I personally find Farcaster render to be more pleasing and actually accurate on aspect ratio. Please let me know if you also disagree there too.
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Rodrigo Bardin
@rodrigobardin
we do agree on aspect ratio (at least when it's 1 image), since twitter limits it to 4:5 (this image is 9:16 so it crops over there). For the rest, in terms of image quality, either when expanding the overlay or in feed, i will have to disagree (if I understood your question)... Twitter is way ahead on that in terms of quality. btw twitter also has settings for image quality on the mobile app. I rarely upload via mobile, but it's there. Desktop always loads max.
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