Nobody forces anyone to choose any one host for media. So it is not centralized or the only choice 🐶🐾🫡
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by that reasoning facebook is not centralized
By your reasoning Damus, snort and a bunch of popular relays are centralized 🐶🐾🫡
no because any of them can carry any of the notes and nothing breaks, where as if any url used in a note changes then it does break things
That is true, and don’t think that we are not thinking and working on that already. But before we can run, we need to learn how to walk. It is not easy and nobody pays me or nostr.build to do it. It’s all done during our free times. Costs are offset by paid accounts so far, so at least it’s sustainable in that way. Join Nostrasia to hear more and ask questions 🐶🐾🫡
its great you are doing what you do but long term it is a problem
i have seen torrent and ipfs used in nostr, holepunch looks promising, and I dont think we need to reinvent this
IPFS and Torrent both suffer from low performance and high latency for these purposes, so not the best match. There is also a problem of legal liability for users to P2P content. I wish I could say that people are good and never upload illegal things, but that’s not the case. Bandwidth is also not cheap, and traffic is not small either. Many challenges at scale, not something that is solvable by existing decentralized solutions or protocols. 🐶🐾🫡
proxies is a good solution, and if we use ipfs or torrent we also have the option for p2p which will be good for bigger files
many people have unlimited traffic and idle hardware which is why p2p has so much potential
legal problems will always exist, centralized platforms have bigger problems with legal than p2p
as to latency with p2p holepunch.to seems very good, have you used keet.io ?
Not sure you have experience in this field, so I guess I’ll rest my case for now. Always open to new implementations. Don’t ask for permission, just do it and show what can be done. 🐶🐾🫡