Nostr Web Client

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That's the sort of middleware Nostr is good at. We have Blossom, right?

Seems like a natural sort of synergy. Media server disambiguation layer.

I think this is the right track.

IMO there's no need to try to jam images into Nostr. Like you said, there's Blossom, and there are also any number of other preexisting image hosting services.

Nostr events are great at wrapping stuff in metadata. That's all kind 20 is: metadata wrapping a ref to an image. If you want to organize that into albums, you could use the drive events we've been talking about.

An integration with Immich or any other media host would probably be a small utility that can do the following:

- If desired, copy a hosted image from a private location to a public one.

- Obtain a shareable link to a hosted image.

- Wrap the image in a kind 20 event.

- Organize kind 20 image wrappers with kind 30045 drive events.

- Optionally encrypt all of these events.

- Send these events directly to another Nostr user, or broadcast them on a relay.

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Laeserin 4mo ago

Ah, I forgot about drives. Of course!

MichaelJ 4mo ago

I'm thinking about nostr:npub1m3xdppkd0njmrqe2ma8a6ys39zvgp5k8u22mev8xsnqp4nh80srqhqa5sf's vision for Alexandria as making connections. You can wrap anything in a Nostr event, which means that you can connect anything across Nostr.

The stuff itself doesn't even have to live "on Nostr"; we can just use the great tools that already exist and add a layer on top of them.

Laeserin 4mo ago

Yes, I just want to make different kinds of media "Nostr-ized" so that I can manage them with Nostr. I don't want to store them on Nostr.

Laeserin 4mo ago

Send them via public message, maybe? You could then send them to a group of people, or only one person.

MichaelJ 4mo ago

That would work for direct sharing. Or else post it publicly like a regular Nostr note.

Laeserin 4mo ago

Okay, sounds cool. 😊

I can actually add public messages to the Lumina profile. Then you can go there and see the events people shared with you, either as individual wrapped media or as albums.

Like "pics from our dinner party, last night" or something.

MichaelJ 4mo ago

Sounds like a fun idea! Sort of like AirDrop or Pinterest or something like that.

Laeserin 4mo ago

It's cool, as people can then click on the individual wrapped media events and comment on them with kind 1111, and none of that ends up in the kind 1 feed.

Laeserin 4mo ago

The Kind 1 Gremlins keep harrassing me to put everything into Kind 1. They get on my last nerve, fr.

So completely lacking in imagination.

Laeserin 4mo ago

Sometimes I am like, wow, everyone else here is so smart and I'm so dumb.

And then I have days like today and it's like, wow, almost everyone else is dumb as a door knob.

MichaelJ 4mo ago

It's probably that everyone is a different kind of smart. Sometimes the braincells bounce around in sync, and sometimes they run into each other.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 4mo ago

you know my opinon about kinds as being some kind of weird incomprehensible tag. i personally would:

- deprecate the kind field

- expand tags to require all tags be indexed with up to 16 character long strings

then the kind thing would be irrelevant. it can all be kind 1 and good luck to the primal circus keeping up

MichaelJ 4mo ago

That would work well for sharing photos from your PurpleKonnektiv meetups

Laeserin 4mo ago

EXACTLY!!

Nobody else understands me. 😭

MichaelJ 4mo ago

🧠⚡🧠