Oddbean new post about login | logout How I use nostr on mobile: I don't. Haha. Seriously, it kills my data if I open Damus for more than 5 mins here and there on some days. Wifi only.
Yeah, that's one of the creepy things. Even with so-called “unlimited data” which is 40 GB, I run out pretty fast
Nostr should probably think about ways to address this. How can we gain mass adoption if people can't use it while out and about?
Its also still pretty crap in the browser on desktop imho...
@damus android being designed with low data mode to start cc @KernelKind @jb55 on damus iOS have you tried disabling auto-load media to test bandwidth usage?
Yeah not too many people have unlimited data. Idk I rissed this question many times but seems like nothing has changed since then 😅
I finally got an email stating that unlimited data is available in my area (I've been going over every month) but in order to do that, I have to accept their router and security settings and I'm not sure I want to do that. The last time I had one of their routers, they wouldn't let me open port 443 (HTTPS) to my own applications.
Woah. I thought You had it. Damn Yeah, I also wouldn't accept such terms.
Diving deeper. Looks like there is a way to select just the unlimited data. $30/mo is better than the $90 overage fee they hit me with last month.
Overage fee 👀 On my end if I run out of the data the internet is slow as fuck and I can't use it at all.
I have 10 gigs and use amethyst all the time on the go... Idk why others seem to have big probs with this.
Damus used 35.4GB for me, and I barely use Damus when I'm outside. I literally open for 2 mins and close out (maybe it's still running in background? I don't know...) That is how I use the app most of the time - open, upload an image (some outdoor crap), and close. I may be underestimating the frequency, but it's certainly not like I would have used Twitter back in the day.
I hate typing on my phone, so I ususally only use social media on a desktop system.. nostr kinda sucks on desktop in the browser.. it keeps losing who I follow and/or PM's don't show up.
Hmm. Have you tried different clients?
yeah, nostrudl is okay on desktop But I'm not verry happy with nostr yet.. it needs to be more reliable.
learn to swipe and never look back.
That still does not beat the speed of my hands on a keyboard.
We have an open ticket for this…
Most if not all nostr clients are unusable on mobile because of data consumption.
https://github.com/Yonle/bostr by @Yonle
Sounds cool, but how does the average person use this without crazy install steps?
Use public bouncer. wss://bostr.lecturify.net is a public bouncer hosted by me. See the relays list that it bounces at https://bostr.lecturify.net Before you connect, You will need to ensure that your client's relay list only connect to a single bouncer. Unless you need to use paid relays, You will also need to add it manually into your client. With that being said, Your client's relay list should looked like this: https://image.nostr.build/3397fc6d0207cf0a21f3bd009039b875e46cf16a56f298dfc3ebf87f22335f90.jpg
