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I need someone that is able to exactly confirm where Lens Protocol stores the data. I'm hearing lot of people talking about "I own my posts " but I could not get anyone to confirm where the data is loaded despite of having many people checking out.

We know in Nostr that you own it as long as you store it locally, otherwise you rely on a relay.. and you rely on the fact that if you publish it into many relays then your data will stay there. Then with images for now we have nostr build but what happens if tomorrow they shut down..

So there are all those elements that we, Nostrians, are aware of and most of us are ok with it. But I'm pretty sure in Lens the Data, images, videos etc are not stored in the blockchain but in a specialized dedicated server. Who is running it and why?.. people don't have option as in here that I can upload wherever I want, it can be in my own servers so I can keep it safe right?

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hzrd149 2y ago

I tried reading their documentation. But it looks like every other web3 project. Full of so many circular links and one-line magic scripts that you can't even get a clue as to what it's doing.

Nicolas ₿ ⚡️ 🇦🇷🧉🤙💜 2y ago

amazing that I didn't get any possitive answer.. still trying to figure it out

hzrd149 2y ago

I'm still curious about it though. A you mentioned they have to be hosting that data somewhere. I'll try to dig into it but I can't promise anything

hzrd149 2y ago

What I found so far:

I poked around in the main lenster.xyz app and it looks like all the images are being stored on IPFS and served from https://gateway.ipfscdn.io which is either the official ipfs gateway or one the lens protocol setup.

The videos seemed a little different, on the lenster app they were being stored on ipfs and fetched thought the gateway. but on the lenstube.xyz app it looks like the videos are being stored and served from an aws s3 bucket.

As for "I own my posts" from what i could gather from their docs. each Profile, Post, Reply, etc is a unique NFT that is "owned" by the users wallet

also it looks like they have the concept of "collecting" posts which i think means another user can mint a copy of the NFT that is the post? I dont really know though...

I tried to setup a new eth wallet using meta mask and login to lenster but it said I need to claim my profile and said my newly created eth address was not eligible. (so much for permission-less social media)

I dont think I can dig any further into it since I cant login to their apps (and of course there is no way to run them locally)