• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Memory and network stop being cheap AF when you multiply it by a billion users. And Whatsapp is a mobile app that’s expected to work on the crappiest of networks and connections.

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      2 days ago

      It is also used to transmit data including video. I don’t think an additional byte is noticeable on that kind of scale