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.
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That's what I'm thinking, yeah
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.
Ah, I forgot about drives. Of course!
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.
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.
Send them via public message, maybe? You could then send them to a group of people, or only one person.
That would work for direct sharing. Or else post it publicly like a regular Nostr note.
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.
Sounds like a fun idea! Sort of like AirDrop or Pinterest or something like that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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