Amethyst 0.16.2 seems almost unusable now. I turned off Global and Community on all relays to prevent crash during startup. The main problem now is tapping any note to read replies under it gets stuck forever at this "Loading feed" screen. Navigating or writing notes gets slow and crashes.

I wonder if client side filtering is sustainable for the future of mobile Nostr. It downloads far too much for mobile data to be sustainable, and the app seems to strain dealing with too many notes.

I could reduce the data transfer requirements with a personal proxy that offloads the multi-relay sync to my home server. But that approach isn't really usable for the average social media end-user.

There seem to be architectural challenges for mobile Nostr to become usable and sustainable.