It's beautiful, from up here. So quiet and peaceful, from thousands of miles above. Gazing out my window.
✈️ Imwald Android airplane mode engaged.
I have used the flight to finally check and respond to everything my client loaded into the internal database, while I was in WiFi. (Outside of WiFi I use the low data mode, rather than full relays.) It is both an abundance of interaction, as well as an interaction that eventually ends. At some point, the locally-stored data has an end.
Thousands of notes. It moves quickly by. Every item in my feed, every embedded or quoted note, and entire threads. I can filter "To Me" or "From Follows". Feels so dynamic, but I am only publishing to my local relays and my cache database.
When I turn off airplane mode, after landing, it will immediately send everything I published to the cache DB, to the requested relays. And it will pull in newer events from all relays, including my local aggregator, Tor and I2P relays. And then I can put it back into low-data mode.
It is a bit counterintuitive, but this asynchronous design might be how we finally make alternative channels smooth to interact with. It might be how we consume hardly any mobile Internet or battery life, but stay widely-distributed and highly performant.
**Queue all the things.**
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