Nostr Web Client

Then prove it. I am doing my part and proving Nostr can be a good small file manager: the types of small files you see on websites. If you pay for relays then it gets even better. But it already works as is.

Try to do the same with IPFS or Torrents. A lot of people claim IPFS and torrents can solve it. Most people that make that claim never actually tried and have no idea how misfit those protocols are for the types of content we are using here.

I tried and I couldn't get either IPFS, or torrents, to be speedy enough for websites. You always need to relay on a centralized hack to make them work.

creator of #fediblock :verified::makemeneko: 2y ago

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> You always need to relay on a centralized hack to make them work.

how is relying on nostr relays (centralized) any different?

my point here is that if this were to actually take off the current arrangement wouldn't scale. right now you're free loading on donated bandwidth. in a sustainable scenario you'd have to pay specific relays to host your stuff for you (ie serve as a low latency CDN) and hint clients to query those first

at that point I have to wonder, why not just do exactly the same thing but with something like IPFS?

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you are fat (fact) 2y ago

You can have multiple relays bozo, your ability to communicate is not centralised.

Alex Gleason 2y ago

Nostr and IPFS are similar in that they both use content IDs. I think the network layout is different tho. IPFS does hops or something. Files take 10 minutes to load or not at all. When you host a file, nobody copies it.

Nostr works a lot better for sharing content, as long as the events are small enough and can be represented as text. It will get replicated and served relatively quickly.

I don't think it should ever be a general purpose "drive". But it might make sense to store some types of text files on it, and there are probably interesting ways it could be used we haven't discovered.