What’s the gist of nip-94? Resilient access to media is good, if I’m understanding you correctly. May be less important/crucial for fun GIFs that we share in passing, but more important in other cases depending on the contents of the media.
I think Nostr clients will build search using nip-94, so the gifs don’t need to be stored on nostr.build. nostr:npub1hee433872q2gen90cqh2ypwcq9z7y5ugn23etrd2l2rrwpruss8qwmrsv6 is just backing them up there while also creating nip-94 events.
Clients could build a gif search using tenor or giphy API by using a proxy which I think solves the privacy issue, but with nip-94 we’re not reliant on these APIs where the service can ban or rate limit you at any time.
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Nip-94 is storing metadata about files anywhere on the internet https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/94.md
I was more trying to get at that the gif search won’t just stop working out of nowhere for Nostr clients.
And now that I think about it, Nostr clients might need users to get their own API keys for Giphy and Tenor APIs. The privacy problem is not solved with a proxy in that case. The business model for those companies is to sell user data to as many companies as possible.