Replying to Avatar Nice and Kind Vic

I still think using events to disseminate files like this is inefficient, though the use case you outline could also meaningfully leverage private relays
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signal_and_rage 2y ago

why is it inefficient to use relays to send encrypted messages that aren’t linkable DMs?

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Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

For an image or any arbitrary file, this ends up base64 encoded expanding the size by 33% + the nostr json envelope over the original file size. It also necessitates managing pgp keys and nostr keys and will be brittle at best. We should have non linkable DMs for nostr soon with NIP-24

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/686