farcaster is cool, but as much as I'd like to tell people about it, i find myself going for other apps instead. recently, it's happened more and more.

speaking for myself, as someone who relies mostly on visuals (photography specially), and also believes art plays a fundamental role in the space, the image compression on FC (app) has become, once again, a big blocker for me (like in 2023). it's brutal compared to other apps and i cant justify the time spent creating farcaster-only files to then see an already optimised image getting crushed on the feed. 2y have passed and not much has been improved - or it got downgraded more recently, i dont even know anymore. gifs are choppy as well. as a non-pro sub, the 2 images limit (farcaster only) is also a kind of an bummer. anyway, if what's shared doesn't look good, difficult to look away. at least for me.

no conclusion, just a brain dump. and apologies for not being so positive. 

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especially when you scroll the timeline. It’s always blurry on the timeline. What’s the deal with that?🥲

yeah i do appreciate and like what’s been built in other areas, but this part was an issue for many back then (dare to say that many artists churned bc of it) and hasn’t evolved much. i learned to live with it until recently, but man… color banding, pixelation etc are just horrible

The team has built so much in the last 2 years but somehow when it comes to image (and video) compression, it’s pretty much still the same. Casino, not art gallery and so on..