is it a formatting step that an image goes through when uploaded? I’m tired of converting image after image back into jpg, so if there’s like a step I can take to avoid it being a webp, it would help to know

  • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I think you’ll agree with me if I explain it. The issue isn’t being able to download or have it not work, it’s not knowing what it does or its best use. When I first saw it, I thought it was a way to control what people can save or not save from a website, like a sort of enforced drm for pics. I then realized I could change the extension and make it work in places where it wasn’t suppose to work, so I didn’t worry about it. So I had just enough energy to not trust it, but still not enough to figure it out what it is or why anyone uses it.

    • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Right. We agree that’s a rather gruelling experience you shouldn’t have had to have in an ideal world.

      I’m saying that’s a problem that can and should be solved by the technology itself. Future users shouldn’t even have to think about that, and I say that from the position of knowing far too much about it.

      It’s absolutely exhausting, as a user, to have to keep that level of knowledge current every several years for decades, and there’s no reason we should have to anymore. The technology is advanced enough to take more burdens off its users.

      Sorry for the rant, but the image format debate exemplifies this.

      • PeleSpirit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I think you’re too deep in the woods on this, tbh. It’s not just understanding all this, but trusting what everything is because there are so many ways for people that mess with your shit. From my perspective, it came out of nowhere when we’ve had only a few extensions really used, for decades, in the pics department. Now video, if extensions change, I check them out right away because it changes more frequently.