I guess what I'm saying is I'm real pissy about the fact that a website with "really not a lot of resources" still took it upon themselves to not compromise on that while every other big platform will do that as the first cost-cutting measure and not think twice about it.
While you can argue that 5MB (if you didnt pay for cohost! plus and got 10mb) might not be a lot for images... it's (I feel) manageable because cohost gave a very clear indication of the limit. And as an artist/photographer posting your stuff online you're probably pretty familiar with image compression tools already (or hell, even the "Export for Web" feature of Photoshop for example) (https://squoosh.app/ is good, btw) so I feel it works out.
Every other social media site won't say shit and will just compress your stuff to hell and back because it "reduces friction".
I feel sometimes friction is good if it means making things slightly better but what do I know.
One of the many reasons contributing to the movement to bsky feelin' like such ass. Everyone's celebrating the recent addition of video, and they're not wrong to, but everyone uploading crunchy fuckin' sex loops and crunched to fuck artwork with blown out reds and it really just feels like we're celebrating stale fuckin' bread when we've been dining on steak and potatoes over here.