wtogami on Nostr: Ouch. Nostr's design is truly decentralized which is good, but normal users may be ...
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.
Nostr killed my 20GB phone data plan 😭
Published at
2023-02-27 06:06:22Event JSON
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