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If #nostr is pretending to be really censorship resistant, why are multimedia files stored on servers? Servers can be tracked down and shut down. Wouldn’t it be better to encode and include multimedia attachments into the notes themselves? #asknostr #nostrprotocol

I get it that it would be harder on the relays, but I think the benefits would make up for it.
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Quentin 1y ago

Hello 😀

NIP96 allows files to be uploaded to multiple servers at the same time adding resilience. File servers are an attack vector, but only because there are so few of them at the moment. Putting a file of several MB in a note is not the best idea because you saturate the relays unnecessarily.

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fondue 1y ago

That’s an interesting approach. Are those multiple upload locations all referenced in the note as so clients can loop through them and download whichever is available?