ah but actually that is secondary to the events we are sharing, and every client has to have some kind of internal event store, which is like a private relay, you see?

hosting that media is a harder problem than notes due to the amount of data involved and its poor compressibility - someone has to do all that traffic and storage, and inbound routing becomes a big part of this problem as well, though it is a general problem in contemporary internet

blossom is one effort in this direction, and really, there is no reason why media links in our notes could not be magnet links, also, just nobody has cared enough to integrate that (because it's more complicated than a webserver) and, just keep in mind it's not IPFS hashes because "iPfS iS a ShItCoIn" because it is used by shitcoins, ya know? cult of maxi. Quite irrelevant IMO, the real problem with IPFS is that it has a crappy consensus that scales poorly, which would probably make it a bit crappy here too, and it's a flaw in that protocol that shitcoiners don't care about because they actually don't want to solve any real problems anyway, just pretend they are.