Nostr Web Client

The only reason why I'm not fully sold on #nostr is that I don't see incentives for relays to store huge amounts of data.

If I were to build a YT-like application, how many of the relays will store the videos uploaded through my app? If I set up my own relay and mine is the only one that does the saving then it kinda defeats the purpose. If other relays actually save those videos, the costs would be enormous for them.

What am I missing?

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Mark Camper 2y ago 💬 2

Supply and demand. If anyone wants it to be stored or wants to access it in the future, they will pay.

The question should be - why is YouTube storing all the crap? Who pays it for them?

There's market for everything, and there are (will be) markets for data as well.

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Snowdot 2y ago

Forget about YT, it was just an example to point the size (which apparently can't be done because relays don't store media).

My difficulty comes from the fact that is stored off-chain, so what do you do with publishing rights for example? This is something we would would want to keep those and access them in the long run.

My thinking is in comparison to the immutable, secure, censorship resistance that on-chain data is offering.

Ryan 2y ago 💬 2

You can run your own relay to keep a copy of your own notes available. I have one set up on an umbrel server.