Subnostr

I'm not sure that #nostr is a "truly" censorship resistant. The post are ok, but the media files are stored on a centralized place. This is the bottleneck, because the owner of this storage place easily can remove your media files. I think IPFS should be used instead. So the above illustration is not complete.

elidy 2y ago

Thank you for your perspective, CyberGuy. Censorship-resistance, like other freedoms, often asks us to be vigilant on areas that need improvement. Keeping notes decentralized has meant striving to keep the network as light as possible, so as to prevent some issues with centralization.

It is true that media files have been concentrating around dedicated services like nostr.build and nostrimg.com. You mention IPFS, I’m not very familiar with it, especially not from a skin-in-the-game point of view. Do you think nostr media file services could create an upper layer that runs like IPFS that nostr could access while still keeping the nostr load as light as possible?

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ᴄʏʙᴇʀɢᴜʏ 👽 2y ago

IPFS is the Inter Planetary File System, the media content is stored in fragments distributed to nodes, like blockchain nodes. It is similar than Torrent. Each fragment is stored at least 3 different places. Of course encrypted, so as a default, only you, the owner of the content can decrypt it. But you have to pay for this storage, not too much, but it is necessaryto maintain the storage. This is like the bitcoin mining (Proof of Work), but it is the Proof of Storage. IPFS project has own coin, called Filecoin. So, it is not a "shitcoin". Actually not a coin, rather than a token. BTW: some internet browser can use it, like Brave (it is a fork from Chrome but with built-in adblocker, crypto wallet, webtorrent, and IPFS)