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.
I suspect this has to do with the lack of video. I could be wrong of course.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe you should switch from the Reddit app to using Firefox. Reddit’s app is very data hungry
Ayo, fellow ReVanced user :D
Man if only i could be one of you, i keep getting “aborted” when trying to parch T-T
Check this if all else fail https://github.com/revanced-apks/build-apps
/r/place was super bandwidth intensive. They managed to turn each individual pixel change into several KB of data.
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.
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
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