Ok, but that applies to all data on public, free servers (urguably excluding internet archive, other than that they potentially go bankrupt due to lawsuits), so has nothing to with Nostr;
Actually, due to the interoperable/interchangeable nature of relays, would Nostr not improve matters of data availability, if something like say internet archive would be a relay? (As well as self hosted, peer hosted or the already mentioned commercially hosted stuff).
I think of nostr as "free cloud storage, hosted by unreliable volunteers"
You seem to be saying "that's a dumb way to think of it, just think of it as an interoperable set of apis, and then you'll see it is useful"
I concede that it is also the latter and that that is good and useful
But what I mostly use it for is free cloud storage, and I have found it to be unreliable for that purpose, except when the data is small and ephemeral
Almost there: its the death of APIs ;)
Good luck on the podcast
I think of litter bins as free storage devices too, but I've come to the conclusion that litter bins are a horrible protocol because every time I put things there they either come back dirty or I can never get them back at all.
That's why I always advise people against using litter bins.
This is an excellent analogy
