I'm noticing that a lot of my memes are auto saved as webps, what can I convert these into so as to be most compatible and least likely to offend those that care about file formats?

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, if we're being realistic, everything I use supports .webp now. Hell, every upload on my instance Blajåj becomes one (not Lemmy universal, as noted by SatyrSack)

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, I forgot webp supported transparency.
Guess it has something over jpg.

[–] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

and animations

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Jpg

It's old, as in 1980's, so everything supports it

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

All I want is a picture of a god dang hot dog.

[–] Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Best I can do:

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why the extra $1, if you by 2 corndags?

[–] Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 days ago

supplyin' da man. Why not get 5 for only $50?

[–] Carighan@piefed.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I'd recommend webp

Everything supports it and it can be lossy or lossless as needed.

[–] Ging@anarchist.nexus 0 points 4 days ago

What? Why does this meme say it's not compatible with anything then? Did I get trolled?

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

also if you only view them and don't care about editing them you can straight up rename the *.webp to *.jpg

it'll still open as a jpg outside of your browser, but it apps that you'd use for image editing still won't want it

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

Iirc that means it'll stay a webp, some program will just fail to open them and the once that can only do it because they recognize the file header and therefore disregard your file extension shenanigans.

What I'm saying is if you do that it's funny but also completely useless.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That is not how file conversion works

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

i am perfectly aware of that, but if you only want to view the .webp file outside of your browser, you don't need to convert it properly, just rename the extansion

[–] black0ut@pawb.social 12 points 4 days ago

Yes, and no. No app will display the image if it wasn't already capable of displaying webp, period.

However, there are many places (mainly websites where you can only upload certain formats, but it can also be apps) where the underlying infrastructure supports webp, but they do a simple extension check first with a list of file extensions that doesn't include .webp. In those cases, changing the extension to .jpg will get the image through the filter, and the underlying system will detect the format using the magic number at the beginning of the file.

The same thing can happen when your OS has no associated app to open .webp, but the app it uses for .jpg can also display .webp.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Png, if you don't care about size. If you do care about size, you're an asshole if you use anything but webp right now.

[–] fading_person@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

On the other hand, if you just want to make people uneasy and some even angry, you can just use and share bitmaps.