One thing I'm noticing about Nostr clients: they are data hogs.
Are there any proposals to compress the data? There ought to be a compressed version of all the data transfer that's much smaller and caches better.
Discussion
RIP to your monthly data allotment if you start using Nostr regularly when away from wifi.
Maybe something like what Gossip client does? Is that what you mean Jimmy?
Not sure but my Start9 nostr RS relay works well
https://damus.io/npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll
Part of the reason is because events are usually sent to clients multiple times, e.g if you subscribe to 10 relays and they all have the same event you're going to be sent the same event 10 times.
Data consumption could be reduced significantly with some relay and subscription optimization such as what #[2] discusses in NIP-65.
I’ve been thinking about compression. I opened an issue on nostr protocol to ask this question.