• @over_clox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That means they blurred them for your viewing pleasure. They’re still 256 color animations where the format was invented in 1989.

    Edit: The process GIF uses to store semi-video quality is called error diffusion. Look it up. 256 color palette is rather limited.

    • zewm
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      13 months ago

      I’m not going to keep going back and forth about it. The fidelity of gifs on windows and Linux clients of discord differ greatly.