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thats fair, i dont mean to imply its not a pain for end users a lot of the times still. but i just wanted to point out that it has a lot of benefits outside that space hence its perpetuation everywhere

i'll point out that i have to convert my webp to png/jpeg to upload it to blahaj lemmy (haven't tried on piefed yet). beyond that a lot of sites dont support webp uploads, even those that do hide it for some reason? like discord still treats all webp as gifs iirc. whatsapp will not recognize webp unless u force it. artstation doesnt support webp

since my work is in graphics, its second nature for me to convert images how i want but i think the current end user situation can be a pain if someone isnt used to image manipulation

there is this issue of people not realizing that images can be things like textures, large insanely large sets of collections of things. and yea sure .webp may not be supported in everything, but having a lossless format that takes less space than .png (yes i have tried avif its not worth it imo) can be a life saver. as someone who cares a lot about being sane about storage space (looking at u AAA games, my games shall never), .webp makes sense. for people running low bandwidth servers, it makes sense (servers should support low bandwidth low resource things like webp when its available, I dont want an internet that requires high bandwidth to use, we have powerful devices to load more complex things like .webp in a breeze); yes i do think browsers should have some way to convert when saving if need be, maybe apps too. but saying stop using .webp ignores why its used, its an amazing thing that lowers resource use (internet traffic uses more resource than the end point iirc), it lowers storage use where it matters