Nice! It's great to see Ethereum/Web3 related technology used by Nostr 💪
I've been hosting an IPFS node (kubo) for 5 years+, if you have any questions, hit me up
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure.
That’s exactly why I built FileDrop.
FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter.
No media decompression.
No file size limits.
Run it yourself.
Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon.
Try it here:
👉 https://filedrop.besoeasy.com/
Also available on Umbrel:
👉 https://apps.umbrel.com/app/file-drop
#nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
Discussion
It would be nice for some simple documentation on how to host nip05 on .eth’s if people got em
Implementing ENS would be nice - but that would ideally require a separate NIP, because through NIP-05 it would be dependent on one centralized gateway like eth.xyz. A custom NIP would allow you to use your own Ethereum node or have several of those gateways set up for redundancy at least
Interesting
What do you think about https://helia.io? Do you think Helia will become mainstream instead of Kubo since it's JavaScript-based?
I haven't seen any major deployments of Helia yet, but getting rid of the dependency on centralized gateways is direction where IPFS is definitely evolving... just like Ethereum is moving towards having stateless nodes.
It's just going to take a long time, we're just at the beginning. Kubo will definitely be here for a few more years :)