I cap my bandwidth at 50% of my max upload and download speed during the day and 80% of max during night when I’m usually asleep using qBittorrent’s schedule feature.

Yes I’ve even had a video file stop at 99.9% and it still played just fine.

The difference is that some users have been using sync for a decade and using Lemmy for only a month. So it’s a lot easier to mentally justify supporting a developer who you’ve been benefiting from for so long.

I have also donated to my local instance, I really hope to see it all grow together.