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[Feature Request] Convert WEBP to JPEG when sharing? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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(This is my first post sent from Sync, so hopefully I don't mess this up too badly...)

This might already exist, or might just generally be a stupid idea, but here we go:

I share images from Lemmy / Sync pretty frequently, primarily as direct images to Facebook Messenger. However, Messenger doesn't like WEBP files, and quite a few instances seem to be using WEBP instead of JPEG or PNG.

It'd be a time-saver (literally minutes a day!) and reduction of friction if there was an option to convert WEBP to JPEG on-the-fly when sharing. Right now I have to check the image format, and if it's a WEBP I need to download and edit / re-save before sharing.

I was going to say this would be a nice value-add for Ultra, but I'm already subscribed 🤷🏻‍♂️

I bet this issue doesn't actually affect that many users (stupid North America and its reliance on Facebook Messenger), but it does ever so slightly annoy me, so I figured might as well shoot my shot and make a feature request.

It's annoying enough that if Sync was OSS I would have submitted a PR already.

All that said: Sync is great and I'm so happy it was transposed from Reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know what WEBP is, why it is used, and why some instances would prefer to use it. But sharing WEBP to Facebook Messenger does not work, it returns an error.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Inb4 the comments saying you should use signal and whatnot and that facebook/meta is evil

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Haha I was sort of anticipating that too. I actually do use Signal, and wish more of my friends / family would too, but I don't have the time nor the energy to try and convince all of them to switch away from Messenger.

Meta IS evil, but they don't have my real name and I try to block as much of their tracking as possible. An unfortunate requisite evil right now if I want to easily keep in contact with people.