Why is it that media shared on #nostr relies on “some dude’s HTTP server” instead of, IDK, distributed over IPFS, WebTorrent, MetaLink or something along those lines?

It seems that the older a post is, the less likely it is for the server hosting the linked media to still be up, so unless there’s some kind of The Internet Archive bot crawling Nostr, these are lost for good.

I haven’t looked into the Nostr protocol yet, so I’m assuming media is attatched to posts using plain links, without some metadata including the file hash, which leads to another point of concern: a rogue media server could silently change the linked media.

I would love to be proved wrong though.