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WebP never caught on outside of Google's stack:

When Facebook tried to use WebP a while back their users didn't like it:

https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-tries-googles-webp-image-...

But these days if you really want to use WebP you can use a WebAssembly build of the library to support it in browsers which don't support it natively:

https://webmproject.github.io/libwebp-demo/webp_wasm/index.h...

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> When Facebook tried to use WebP a while back their users didn't like it

That's just a "Google sucks at UX" issue. Apple recently adopted HEIF in iOS wholesale, but nobody is complaining because they made the correct UX call to convert to JPEG as soon as there's the slightest chance the recipient doesn't support the format.

Interesting use case for WASM. That really opens the door for more experimental image formats.

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