Nostr Web Client

Basically zero-cost pseudo-decentralized images with WebTorrent and WebSeeds: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1653275/222025570-6f893106-9c35-4862-bea6-10e518c91b92.mp4

fiatjaf 2y ago

The idea is that if image hosts want they can host the image + a torrent file and hand out a magnet that can be used independently both by clients that implement magnets and clients that don't.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

In the worst case we get what we have today already: just images hosted by a server. In the wonderful p2p decentralized case we get people seeding content to each other and hashes being verified.

fiatjaf 2y ago

Now I am thinking that it might be a good idea to come up with a new URL scheme that is backwards-compatible.

Instead of magnet:?ws= we could have just ?torrenthash=. Then all clients keep working as they are, but clients that want to join the p2p frenzy can implement a simple scheme to transform that into an actual magnet and then use that with webtorrent (or nonweb-torrent) to download the file from either peers or webseeds and verify the hash immediately.

Eric 2y ago

Boa.

brugeman 2y ago

Exactly, great idea! Keep repeating that, and I will add seeding of big pfps to media.nostr.band

mrclownworld 2y ago

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