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I've been on a crappy mobile connection while traveling and have been more mindful of bandwidth usage. I've noticed the following:

Nostr seems to use an order of magnitude more bandwidth than X, despite me spending far more screen time on X.

I suspect this is because X controls the delivery of multimedia content and thus ensures it's downsampled and optimally compressed for mobile app rendering.

Whereas nostr media is hosted and delivered at the original raw file size at which it was uploaded.
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Marnix Schoorel 1y ago 💬 1

Also: X uses 1 connection to 1 server. Or at least not many. Nostr sets up many?

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Jameson Lopp 1y ago 💬 1

Indeed. Though I'd hope that the redundant connections are only downloading the JSON notes and not also redundantly downloading multimedia content.

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TKay 1y ago

I think nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg cashing relay helps here.

Not sure about how other apps do it. But I have a feeling that they do download redundant notes.

Unless the app refreshes the filter parameters after each incoming note?

But it must be media that creates this issue, not text notes even if there were redundant downloads.