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Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution... by HedgeGriffon on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @04:19PM (#32075113)
Umm.. not compression artifacts. GIF uses lossless LZW. Maybe color palette artifacts since GIFs are usually palettized and not true color (although with a tortured use of local color tables they can even be true color)
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Re:James Webb first images – complete set of high resolution... by capableweb on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @06:16PM (#32076394)
This is the nitpick we all come here for :)

Choosing a limited palette in order to save bytes, some might say is compression. If said compression hurts the image quality, some might call that "compression artifacts".

The point stands, GIF was a poor choice for the format here.

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