Nostr Web Client

I wonder how hardcore my network traffic is. Discord spams an absolute crapton of websockets connections, Primal connects to only it's cache server so that shouldn't cause any problems, and Element/Matrix is just...periodic AJAX. Actually something I really appreciate about Matrix is the fact that it is either HTTP long-poll or SSE - or just AJAX. Kinda simple, credit where it's due. I don't see this as a viable thing for Nostr, but perhaps an AJAX gateway in the future wouldn't be too bad. Imagine a proxy-server/-multiplexer that you host yourself to connect to your favorite relays, cache some data and just fetch the newest batch periodicaly. Quite bandwidth saving imo. ^^ But, thats definitively an ultra-low priority thing.

nobody 2y ago

I have turned off Federation at matrix. Port deleted and that was the end... Matrix Federation is pure traffic. For a small community on its own synapse, you do not need Federation, if it is simply about massenging.

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Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

I never really noticed a big impact from federation; but I did notice a very, very noticeable impact when joining huge rooms with many federated users; i.e. sone of the bigger ones at matrix.org. That can, and will, become more of a benchmark than a usable situation really fast XD

nobody 2y ago

matrix.org is spammer's hell. That's why element is always blocked on google play. Once the gate to matrix.org is open, you will be spammed and flooded...

nobody 2y ago

Because of the numerous complaints, element is blocked again and again in the google store. matrix.org is always taken as the default from matrix start screen, although there are tens of other servers. But the standard user does not care, he does not see the matrix.org default, he does not know about other servers.