Replying to Avatar The Fishcake (nostr.build)

Just an idea: serve low resolution images and gifs to the known mobile native clients. Of course it is possible to send a “flag” from the device to indicate “save-data” and comply, but if it is not part of a standard and with multiple clients available, it can be a pain. I think I’ll experiment with this idea with my own device and see how much data I can save.🐶🐾🤔
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phil 2y ago

Something like Akamai does with some of their CDN products:

https://techdocs.akamai.com/property-mgr/docs/adaptive-img-comp-aic

It looks like they have some sort of logic on their edge servers to detect network type and also use the latency to determine if images should be compressed.

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phil 2y ago

The Maxmind GeoIP database has a connection type field to determine if an IP is mobile or fixed so could use that as part of the decision. https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip-databases

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 2y ago

Both are not really feasible, for something that makes no money from serving content, unfortunately. 🐶🐾🫂