(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.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    8•10 months ago

    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.

    • BobEnglish
      5•10 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        3•10 months 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.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        5•10 months ago

        Oh you 😂 you think I should ask the multinational behemoth social media company (that is routinely antagonistic towards the laws of other countries, and rejects feature requests from users for sport) to support WEBP as a shareable format in their messenging app, rather than the very receptive developer of a small app that I directly support through my subscription?

        You have contact info for the team I should be talking to at Facebook?