Replying to Avatar The Fishcake (nostr.build)

I’ve been contemplating a proper use of NIP-95 (I do like the idea) and maybe creation of a special relay/CDN for that. It does open a lot of interesting use cases, if we have data as a note. One problem that I find hard to swallow is inevitable increase of the size due to inefficiencies of base64 (about 1.37 times). This probably will rule it out for use in mobile applications (telcos charge a lot per bits) but for some cases it might be OK.

After some research, I think creating a serverless relay to work with CDN is not impossible, and can be even cost effective. What do you think would be some good use cases for files in notes?

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Heri Sim 2y ago

I think we could build a HTTP CDN that sources blobs from NIP-95 relays. Maybe also one that automatically converts every NIP-95 to a magnet-uri.

It just makes little sense to transfer blobs over websocket. Aren't relays inefficient as they distribute the same copies of the same events?

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