(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.
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.