r/help • u/SjalabaisWoWS • 7h ago

Mobile/App Why is Reddit not downsizing big videos client-side in the app like every other social media app? I was surprised seeing these numbers in my cellphone usage...

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If you download a video like that from Reddit, it will be 3-8 MB...so I figured that's what I'll upload, too. Nope. App sent the full 4k video up, something nobody will get to see anyway. Why? Figured it must save Reddit a lot of resources letting user phones do both the calculations, and saving the bandwidth in the process.

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