Is there something about the way lemmy works that is causing Sync to chew up so much data? I never saw this kind of usage on Reddit.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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Not that far off from mine! Interestingly, my Sync used almost as much as Meet (which I use daily for video calls).
I suspect it's mainly multimedia data, like high-res images. Maybe Lemmy serves higher-res images compared to Reddit? I also recall seeing some discussion somewhere were Lemmy instance admins were turning off server-side image/thumbnail caching, so as a result you could be directly pulling the high-res images by simply scroll thru your feed? This is just a guess though.
Unrelated but TIL about TachiyomiJ2K.. really loving the j2k UX over the base...
Unrelated to the post, but how did you manage to rack up 32GB for tachiyomi? Do you just read a lot? I don't think I've ever cracked a gig.
Indeed, I read a lot. :) But in addition to manga, I also read a lot of manhua/manhwa, which take up a lot more bandwidth than manga since they're colored.
I think you meant to reply to @d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
But I agree with you lol
My guess: Reddit was serving not high res pictures (thumbnails) while scrolling and only gave them when opening.
Instances would need to create a thumbnail and the actual video. This would require a smal-ish CDN and processing power + storage to save the multiple versions to, right?
Idk about NSFW but arent they just hidden? To my knowledge at least Sync only shows "NSFW" and a blank single-colored post for an NSFW post.
You can hide NSFW previews but they are loaded in the background.
I'm thinking similar. I have preloading hires images off and gifs set to WiFi only, but when I go to view an image it is already there loaded. Guess I'll have to turn off preloading previews and thumbnails also. I don't watch video here unless by accident.