One of the only things I find myself missing about reddit is the videos. I’m aware that it’s not really feasible for videos to be hosted on a lemmy instance at the moment, but I’m curious if that might change

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    1 year ago

    Because it’s a data hog for mobile users, but mostly because it’s intrusive to the browsing experience.

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      1 year ago

      This should just be something that mobile clients can turn off by default.

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      1 year ago

      So having an image/thumbnail with a “play” button is intrusive? I can see how some people might find it annoying (or perhaps even intrusive), but we already have embedded images which are exactly the same until pressed.

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          1 year ago

          That’s fair.

          In that case, perhaps you (if you find it annoying enough) could open a feature request ticket on your favorite app to “Add option to disable inline/embedded Media”. It appears that you are not the only one with this issue, and I don’t mind having a more complete user experience with more options.