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Well, you a half right. The picture is not actually in the event (regardless what kind), a link to the picture is.

But its not a regular link, its a blossom link. Blossom is this seperate system that evolved out of Nostr where files can be stored on servers with their hash as the ID. Currently your pictures are stored on the primal server. But if lets say the primal server dies tomorrow, you can reupload the picture (as in the file) on another server, and the protocol is such that clients will figure out that the innitial link is dead and look if it is hosted elsewhere (based on another event where you inform the world what blossom servers you use), and a such heal itself automatically.

So your innitial post has this link:

blossom . primal . net /b5a597df5cf2bd0b5427583893e356a01df314e36fe5aaba9595675228f3f990 . jpg

But you can also store it on other servers to ensure that the picture will pop up in the future as well, even if primal goes away.

(Oh and the whole point of Nostr is that Olas is not a platform, its a client :) ).

Well recon that is enough for day 1 on Nostr.

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Luke MacNeil 7mo ago

I have a fair bit of long form video content too, so I set up an IPFS node for that. Maybe I should just do that for the images too?

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Constant 7mo ago

IPFS is crap, and blossom makes far more sense :)

Trying to provide data availability guarentees using fancy pancy tricks is a stupid endevour.

Just accept its stuff on drives, and more drives is more redudant. As such the only thing you need is a unique identifier and a method of sharing on what drives those uniquely identified things can be found (Nostr itself follows the same principle). Its the most grugbrain approach and by the looks of it it might actually just work. Whereas....does IPFS actually work?

You can set up your own blossom server if you want. And you can also set up your own relay while you are at it.

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Luke MacNeil 7mo ago

Is blossom going to support a 30 minute 400GB 4k video file though?

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Constant 7mo ago

Is a server going to support a 30 minute 400gb 4K video file? Depends on the server :)

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Luke MacNeil 7mo ago

Well it also depends on the protocol, the filesystem, how many levels of abstraction and containerization we're playing with, and a lot of things.

I'm not opposed to blossom, or whatever works, I just want to be able to post a link to a file and have the video play, preferably with a thumbnail and video controls.