100 sats \ 1 reply \ @dtonon 8 Jan \ on: Nostr Image Host: use nostr to host image files and create an upload form nostr
I have mixed feelings about this.
From a obvious point of view it feels absolutely bad spamming relays with fat notes, but if the relay is my one, and I'm thinking about the Gossip model here, it could make absolutely sense to have a unique source of truth for notes and their assets, that uses a unique protocol. Images are an important chunk within an information piece, so I would not give them to a generic third part.
A client could also offer its users a relay/web server/CDN layer to improve the images reachability and the download performances.
There is a proposed NIP-95 that is quite similar:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/345
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Crossposted on nostr
From a obvious point of view it feels absolutely bad spamming relays with fat notes, but if the relay is my one, and I'm thinking about the Gossip model here, it could make absolutely sense
If I was running a nostr relay, I would consider it spam and I would block it, unless I uploaded it to my own relay, or charged some money for it. Anyone who runs a nostr relay and wants to do something like that can put a filter on kind number 57009, which is the kind I am using for this.
To me, that's the beauty of nostr: it's not up to me. Every nostr relay gets to pick and choose what they think is spam and/or what they want to charge for. Nostr puts the relay operator in control of their own relay. And this app abides by that by specifying the relay to use directly in the image id. That way whoever is using it can connect to a relay that you know has that data (or at least had it at one point).
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