Well, I had the dream of meshing my cmnext cms project with nvault, such that sharing media on nostr was as simple as hovering an image over any web client and it would get uploaded and a url inserted into your cursor, all hosted on your own machines.

cmnext is different in that the webUI is designed to be self hosted and for a small number of users, but the media itself relies on a virtual file system backed by ftp S3 or a file path. Which means I have the HA infra to host the media, and a neat and portable frontend to manage it.

I understand your concern of "I just want to upload shit and share it" so help me understand better? You want self hosted or a service? There is no in between, it's either trusted users or the public, no in-between. I think they are two fundamentally different and incompatible architectures.

cmnext is my attempt at bridging that gap for slightly more technical users.