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.

    • Tibert@compuverse.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      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.orgEnglish
        3·
        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.

  • gus@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

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

    • Tibert@compuverse.ukOPEnglish
      2·
      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.

  • kurosawaa@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    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.caEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

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

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlEnglish
    17·
    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.worksEnglish
      1·
      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.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        Incorrect, GIFs have a lot less frames than 24/30/60 frames per second, and are usually 4-8x smaller than 1080p video resolution. In case you are referring to the smart frame-based compression in videos with H.265/AV1, those cannot be embedded into webpages to be played the way GIFs can be treated like JPGs. The web still relies on H.264 for video embedding due to its decent compression and no decoding effect on battery life of any device, no matter a Pi, phone or laptop.