The @pixelfed app will autoplay videos, with the ability to disable this in the settings 🔥
Why? The only purpose of video autoplay in commercial social media apps is to inflate metrics. No user ever asked for it.
Also autoplay with sound? That's just not something that should be done. Ever. If muted autoplay is only mildly annoying because you have to unmute each video you'd like to watch and miss several seconds of audio, this is outright malicious, it startles people and wakes up their partners.
@dansup @pixelfed Really? Do people really want autoplay videos? I'm asking non-ironically. I really want to know. Because auto-play videos is my -- and everyone I know's -- single biggest pet hate on social media apps, and the first thing we go digging around trying to figure out how to switch OFF every time we re-install Facebook etc.
@dansup would really prefer it didn't. I find autoplaying immensely annoying, and I always turn it off
