Considering I open Damus and Instagram with similar frequencies, but Instagram feeds have way more images and videos, it would seem that it’s not media that uses up the bulk of bandwidth on nostr.

Rather, this seems to show that downloading tons of redundant data from relays is what causes the bulk of data usage, no?

If so, making clients more intelligent at deduping by using NIP-65/Gossip should be a **big** priority. Casual users aren’t going to be cool with burning through 30 GB of data and their battery life.