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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.

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[โ€“] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

[โ€“] StarAD@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

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.

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