Nostr Web Client

In writing, NIP-95 sounds good. It allows our images to be decentralized! We don't have to use centralized services to host images and video! This is what we've wanted from the beginning, when realizing that our text was decentralized, but our images and videos were not.

In practice though, NIP-95 overloads relays with large amounts of data. Relay operators signed up for hosting just text messages. Hosting data files as text inside json was not what they intended to do. This will drastically increase their storage footprint and server costs.

I don't think NIP-95 is bad as it solves a real problem that we do have, however rolling it out needs a better implementation path instead of via brute force. This is the type of change that has consequences and all must be considered and discussed by client developers, relay developers, and relay operators - both paid and free.

Lou 2y ago

And I’ll further centralize the relays, only the ones with the money to hosts image and text would be standing, even if there is an opt in to turn images off, most people would prefer image hosting relays. Nada bueno.

Would be cool if there was a way to share the image between relays without hosting the full file, kinda like torrenting but with let’s say pixels of an image. That would reduce the amount of data is stored while allowing the relays to show the image in full.

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