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I still think using events to disseminate files like this is inefficient, though the use case you outline could also meaningfully leverage private relays

why is it inefficient to use relays to send encrypted messages that aren’t linkable DMs?

For an image or any arbitrary file, this ends up base64 encoded expanding the size by 33% + the nostr json envelope over the original file size. It also necessitates managing pgp keys and nostr keys and will be brittle at best. We should have non linkable DMs for nostr soon with NIP-24

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/686