Why are 90% of the images WebP format?

Battle Masker@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 229 points –

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

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fair but "it" here is pretty vague. my guess is that, in your case, whatever part of "it" that processes the image handles webp files just fine but for some reason the devs made "it" reject file extensions that don't match ".jpeg", ".png", ".whatever_else" for some reason before the file gets handled further.

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