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Ouch.

Nostr's design is truly decentralized which is good, but normal users may be surprised by the amount of data and client-side processing that is required to have a rich social media experience. It can too easily consume far more mobile data than hyper-optimized mobile YouTube streaming.

They already begun to optimize by providing things like data saving image compression proxies.

Perhaps Mobile Nostr clients need pop-up warnings about mobile data consumption. Other apps give users options to automatically minimize mobile data use while they are unrestricted while on WiFi. For example a mobile Nostr client detecting mobile data mode could skip loading of images or show a very low res version from a proxy until you click on the image to download.

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Michael Anton Fischer 2y ago

Cannot confirm. Have an unlimited mobile data plan and was heavy on Damus while traveling usually having a YouTube in PiP.

62GB YouTube and 1.2 GB Damus in February.

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Warren Togami 2y ago

Perhaps Damus put more effort into data optimization than Amethyst? The latter easily uses tens of GB per week. I need to be careful to close the app and disable background data permissions while I'm away from WiFi.

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Mags 2y ago

Smart wrt disabling

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