Given that the bulk of data usage comes from images/videos/gifs, a good way would be to give the option to not automatically load images, but if a user taps a "download" button on the post, then the image for that post would be loaded.
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Yep, but I hate configs... It app should work out of the box without any need to change it's settings.
Hmm, how about a way for Amethyst to not automatically download any media over a certain size, and allow a user to tap a download icon if they want to see it? That way it wouldn’t be a setting, but more a safeguard limit, and only would affect certain circumstances.