Feature Request: Light-weight Mode for Nexus Indexer
Nexus currently functions as a full-content indexer, reshaping and serving every object in /pubky.app to facilitate building pubky.app clients and enhance UX and latency.
Problem Statement
There are strong use cases for a "light-weight" mode in Nexus. A Nexus in light-weight mode will be serving only URIs to homeservers, leaving clients to fetch data directly from the source. As a light-weight Nexus would consume less memory, storage, and overall resources, running a home indexer would become more feasible. This will further help decentralisation. In addition, light-clients avoid the legal hazard in some jurisdictions of serving other parties' data.
Proposed Solution
Introduce a new setting to switch Nexus between two modes:
Full-content mode (current functionality)
Light-weight mode - serves URIs only
Alternative Option
Consider a "pruned" Nexus that holds no content/files but only serves URIs. Additionally, we could add an option to each API endpoint, lightweight=true, allowing:
Full-content Nexus to support both full-content and light-weight clients
Pruned Nexus to exclusively support light-weight clients
Note: Light-weight clients will be "fat", more akin to Nostr clients. A lightweight indexer would require more processing on the client's end.
Feature Request: Light-weight Mode for Nexus Indexer
Nexus currently functions as a full-content indexer, reshaping and serving every object in
/pubky.appto facilitate building pubky.app clients and enhance UX and latency.Problem Statement
There are strong use cases for a "light-weight" mode in Nexus. A Nexus in light-weight mode will be serving only URIs to homeservers, leaving clients to fetch data directly from the source. As a light-weight Nexus would consume less memory, storage, and overall resources, running a home indexer would become more feasible. This will further help decentralisation. In addition, light-clients avoid the legal hazard in some jurisdictions of serving other parties' data.
Proposed Solution
Introduce a new setting to switch Nexus between two modes:
Alternative Option
Consider a "pruned" Nexus that holds no content/files but only serves URIs. Additionally, we could add an option to each API endpoint,
lightweight=true, allowing:Note: Light-weight clients will be "fat", more akin to Nostr clients. A lightweight indexer would require more processing on the client's end.