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Which version was this on? The latest APK seems to be leaner. That being said, Amethyst connects with 16 relays by default. If you and your followers have data in all of them, it will download 16 copies of everything. On top of that, many profiles pictures are quite big (10mb each). Since there is no rescaling of images yet, it's downloads everything it needs to render from the source, which can easily reach 2gb. Phones only reserve 250MB of local cache, which means once that limit passes, it erases old data to go get new one, redownloading some assets all the time.

That being said, i am using the latest APK v0.11.4 and it runs ok in 200k connections.
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Ian "nostr.naut.social" D 2y ago

Isn't everything ID'd? If clients hit relays in succession, if could get the Note ID's and only actually grab "new"?

This would reduce overhead on Clients and Relays (esp if relays are hit in random order to spread the load).

Or even if grabbing all is unavoidable, can locally dump the dupes.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

A caching server that connects to all relays for the user, downloads everything, dedups, resize and chache all profile, banners and image/video links/previews in all posts would be ideal.

But that feels like a regular app with a central server that controls everything, not a nostr app.