this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2025
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This post is like 2 years old. How is it this grainy???

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some Lemmy instances have very low file size cutoffs for image uploads. I feel that the natural loss of pixels that happens everywhere over time is acellerated here.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I'm more inclined to think it was shared, reshared, and reencoded to hell and back.

Also,

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there's one potato that all social media sites pass around to filter uploads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you stick two ends of a wire in a potato it can process jpeg.