Gregory's Server
> 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.
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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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