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Pull-style requests actually use up quite a bit more bandwidth than push notifications, because every client and server has to query every few seconds instead o
by Titanous 14y ago
Pull-style requests actually use up quite a bit more bandwidth than push notifications, because every client and server has to query every few seconds instead of just getting notified when there is a new post.
Posts have 'views', so a video or photo post would be pushed out with the 'meta' view which would include a URL to the content instead of the content inline.
- pwf 14y agoI don't think so, considering that not all of my followers are going to be using the service all of the time. If the server just blindly downloaded everything always, then yes, it would be more bandwidth. But with proper caching strategies and servers only requesting new posts when clients are active, I think you could save a lot of bandwidth by not pushing everything.