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Top-level
It wastes your data and makes you do extra actions to watch the video from the beginning (if that's even possible, hi Instagram Reels on the web). Usually the thumbnail and the description are enough for you to decide whether you want to watch the video or not. Autoplaying doesn't help with that. And you still have to click or tap it to unmute it. 3 comments
 Thumbnails and descriptions are not a good substitute for video, especially on social media. It's along the lines of ‘I'm not reading allat’—‘I'm not describing my video or photoshopping a thumbnail’. Look at alt text use for example. > Autoplaying doesn't help with that. I guess in your experience it doesn't. In my experience, scrolling Twitter and Telegram with autoplay, it's very rare to have to expand a video, or want it be paused ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  |
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@grishka
> It wastes your data
That's why—if you are so concerned about data use—you can turn off autoplay manually or by turning on data saving mode. Not sure about Pixelfed, but on social media videos often are well compressed and offered in several qualities, so it's NABD.
Watching from the beginning has nothing to do with autoplay. It's UI issue, some platforms restart the video when you expand it. YouTube Shorts and TikTok allow to rewind easily.
@dansup [1/2]
@grishka
> It wastes your data
That's why—if you are so concerned about data use—you can turn off autoplay manually or by turning on data saving mode. Not sure about Pixelfed, but on social media videos often are well compressed and offered in several qualities, so it's NABD.
Watching from the beginning has nothing to do with autoplay. It's UI issue, some platforms restart the video when you expand it. YouTube Shorts and TikTok allow to rewind easily.