can nostr be used for filesharing like how people are using discord?
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On the relays themselves it isn’t optimal. You’d have to come up with some hybrid system with IPFS where you’re serving the files off of your own computer or something, and even then that probably isn’t what you want. Relays are going to reject large files most likely. Nothing much bigger than the tiny 7 second videos that are on diVine, at least for the time being. Definitely not generalized filesharing.
indexing magnet links or ipfs addresses to files is surely to blow up the population around here
I don't think that’s particularly useful, no, because people aren’t generally socializing at the same place they find torrents or whatever. Or maybe I am wrong.
that's how 4chan did it, people would hang out on /v/ all day and then go to torrent stuff on the secret torrent board. I see it on fitgirl-repacks as well, people asking for help installing games. Or on 1337 when you have some software repackaged by a jeet and no one understands how to bypass the liscence. On steam don't people discuss games before buying?
Okay well I don’t know, I’ve never posted on 1337x or fit girl-repacks and steam is a different thing altogether, but the point is that these are filesharing sites with comments sections. I’m not going to a filesharing site to find personalities to subscribe to. I don’t see how it is related. But Nostr is an open protocol and you can build anything on it