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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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It seems like the logical way to work (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even if it was 3 cents in bandwidth (it's not), that's 1.3 billion dollars in additional costs. You want more ads to pay for that?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And thats probably a rounding error in googles costs.

For a much more usable, enjoyable experience.

That you're arguing against, because wont someone think of poor googles downtrodden finances.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Billion dollar costs aren't rounding errors even at YouTube/Google's scale. They're a measurable percentage of total revenue. I agree that it slightly improves the user experience, it's hard to imagine a worse cost/benefit tradeoff from an engineering perspective even at more realistic costs. It's especially hard to justify when there's an easy alternative for users in the form of downloading videos.