(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.
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.
Inb4 the comments saying you should use signal and whatnot and that facebook/meta is evil
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.
Then you should ask Facebook to support it.
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?
So because you are using a service that doesn’t respect its users to the point it makes it hard for them to reach out, Sync should do a lossy image conversion when sharing images?
You are the one using a service without knowing how to reach out to their support channel.
Very rude.