#Nostr relies on links to the centralized web for photos and videos.
To avoid the pitfalls of the centralized web, we need freedom from it.
#Nostr relays can now store all file types as Merkle DAGs, which are basically Merkle Trees with directories. 📁 Any file or folder can be signed like a nostr note.
We call it HORNET Storage to represent the Cyber Hornets protecting bitcoin.⚡️ Website just launched —> https://www.hornetstorage.com/
Sounds a little bit like IPFS...
Scionic Merkle DAGs are actually much better than IPFS Merkle DAGs.
Plus, IPFS focuses on a P2P model that forces everyone to become a server — whereas Nostr is a user-server model with paid servers.
Specifically, Scionic Merkle DAGs have much smaller branches with far fewer useless hashes needed to create the same proof. It scales logarithmically, see stats below: https://github.com/HORNET-Storage/scionic-merkletree 
I do believe that NOSTR needs a p2p small scale 2nd way to retrieve data from clients and servers. I made a post about it, hopefully I can find it. I have some problems with relays and accezsing or viewing my own notes.
Cant find it. All my messages from a time frame a week ago are gone. Cant see them nowhere anymore. This is one of the problems with Nostr that NEEDS to be solved!
a local backup of all profile and personal text data, in order to save yourself hassles with losing configurations or entire posts!! (including the data on posts that others gave (zaps, likes, reposts) in order to proof that you have send them in the past.)
Anyway, my message was like this in short:
People may need to cut on bandwidth and thus need to reduce amount of connections to NOSTR relays. Only dedicated relays for specific services and top 3 "global nostr" relays will be selected then. In other words: a relay needs to be really popular some point in order to stay in the top3 and thus the top 3 are a centralizing point of failure.
What do you think about this?
I've heard that npub1t89vhkp66hz54kga4n635jwqdc977uc2crnuyddx7maznwfrpupqwra5h9 is doing something like that in https://www.hornetstorage.com
He also talks about a github replacement. The tldr is with this new type of relay he is working on, you could make apps that require a lot of storage and bandwidth by slowing logarithmically the bandwidth requirement as the number of files in the app increases
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