• fidodo@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      When an image is uploaded the hosting service compresses it to lower the file size at the cost of quality. Normally the quality drop would be hard to notice, but do it over and over again and eventually it builds up. I wonder what generation this upload is on. It’s ironic that digital media was supposed to promise perfect replication quality but over compression has actually made it worse than analog