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Lemmy still consumed less data than reddit even heavily used (compuverse.uk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Tibert@compuverse.uk to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Lemmy is surprisingly good for the small amount of people compared to Reddit. And even with all the Images the apps have to load, the consume less data than reddit.

This month (Ce mois-ci) the use of reddit was very limited and a bit of r/place to look at the amazing anti-reddit art. Lemmy : about 3gB Reddit : 2.33gB

Last month (Le mois dernier) it was only reddit use. 12.49gB

Tho there aren't really many videos on Lemmy, which may explain a part of the difference.

And on reddit well there are the ads and the tracking.

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[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago

I suspect this has to do with the lack of video. I could be wrong of course.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 17 points 1 year ago

This would be the biggest part. Right now Lemmy cannot be compared 1:1 but somehow I don't really miss video content.

Also reddit has a lot of ads and some of them are video ads which consume data just for displaying them.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I dont miss the amount of unnecessary videos. So many of them could have just been text that could be read before the video could even load.

[-] kurosawaa@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

Part of this may just be that Lemmy does not stream video through the app right? Also most Lemmy servers force very small image sizes.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

Maybe you should switch from the Reddit app to using Firefox. Reddit's app is very data hungry

[-] InkstainTheBat@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Ayo, fellow ReVanced user :D

[-] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Man if only i could be one of you, i keep getting "aborted" when trying to parch T-T

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Do you have the correct versioned apk?

[-] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I tried different combinations none worked, what versions worked for you ?

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

18.19.35 I think. If you look at Revanced docs it should tell you.

[-] Dreyns@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks i'll try to look into it again !

[-] iknt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Check this if all else fail https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps

[-] gus@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

/r/place was super bandwidth intensive. They managed to turn each individual pixel change into several KB of data.

[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't even place or follow r/place changes. Just go on there, look at memes and how the map has evolved since.

But still just moving around is very bandwidth intensive.

[-] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

No video is fantastic method to minimise bandwidth usage and strain. Video astronomically scales up in file size compared to anything else, with audio (64kbps OPUS) and images (80% quality JPEGs or WEBMs or GIFs) being orders of magnitude smaller.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

GIFs are way bigger for the same length vs video because they're basically just a series of full images, whereas videos include the diff between frames.

But the rest is absolutely correct.

[-] Molehill8244@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily the best comparison if it's just aggressively caching. The real comparison to make is analytics tracking events and other evil things like random battery hungry background tasks

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Quality over quantity.

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