#damus folk - what is the biggest pain in your 🌝 when using damus?

What’s broken, lacking, poorly designed etc..

I love the short and long swipe actions!

I didn't dismiss it, I explained why it's insufficient to currently replace e.g. YouTube.

* Peertube tries to be a solution for replacing YouTube with a decentralized system. It is working well, but isn't 100% on the decentralized end of the centralized/decentralized spectrum yet. Its video player embeds can be used on any platform or protocol.

* NIP-96 tries to be a solution for replacing sites like Imgur, and both it and Blossom are preparing for being a solution (or you could say they're already half a solution) to the problem that e.g. IPFS is tackling.

These are different problems to solve, and if you want someone to "post their content natively to Nostr" then you need a proper implementation of a client+server that implements a real YouTube alternative based on e.g. Blossom.

Maybe I missed where you pointed me to that existing. If not, then I think the next best thing is to recommend publishing to a working YouTube alternative that is open-source, customizable, self-hostable, and not centralized to a single corporation.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not at all against solutions based on what you're suggesting! I just believe it doesn't help actual creators, or their perception of Nostr for that matter, to tell them "no zaps from me", if they post HTTP links to their own content on Nostr, but aren't linking to a single, large mp4 file using the most widely supported (thus much larger filesize) video codec on a pure file hosting server that you approve of.

One could argue it's even worse than that (as of now), because e.g. on the fediverse, people publish media to 20,000 different servers/domains, while there are probably less than 50 media servers/domains used on Nostr today. And 90% of files probably live on only a handful.

I know it supports s3. It also basically tries to be a an object store too with its filesystem support. Regardless of the storage backend, its object storage in some form. Seems like an extra layer to uploads that is not needed. Why not just speak s3?

The only interesting bit is that it can mirror data across different blossom servers and proxy requests... none of that works yet

The worst part of blossom is that you have to set an expiration date for files. Hopefully other implementations do it differently and thats not part of the blossom spec.

What exactly in NIP-96 makes that possible? I don't see anything. It's the same old uploading to a normal HTTP server and requesting it from there, unless I missed something.

Hopefully. Minio/S3 can do everything it does and better. Kinda gay to reinvent thre wheel

Blossom better stop using sqlite lol

True for text content, but media content "on" nostr is already not on nostr. Those files are just uploaded to nostr-auth-enabled silos and linked via plain old DNS, same as linking any other resource on the Web.

Who remembers social bookmarking such as del.icio.us? It was killed by Yahoo years ago, and currently I am using raindrop.io which is not that social. I hope to see a Nostr social bookmark some day soon. #wish #asknostr #social #bookmark

Whats the best software to self host a stream with HLS and RMTP support? No transcoding or anything. Minimalism preferred

This is exactly an area where Nostr could shine, because you could have an app designed to be a professional showcase/portfolio for artists, and yet the same events/content could be pulled into a social apps geared toward consumers/patrons without the artist having to rebuild their social graphs separately on each app.

It’ll be interesting to see if non-artists go to Cara. An artist-based community is great, though non-artists or hobby artists are usually the audience needed for sales of art and/or classes, meet-me-at-this-event announcements, join my art challenge, sign up for my newsletter, etc.

If Cara is just artists, then I think it’s more social time than helps-my-art-business time spent there. My impression is a lot of those who make a living with their art need/use social media for their business, which means the platform has to have the right potential audience or it’s not worth the artist’s time and effort.

I’m guessing Cara’s stance against AI art is a big attraction. I wish Pinterest had a filter for AI. Went searching for a topic and expected art and photography; got 80% AI images. ☹️

Seeing posts from others about artists leaving IG for a platform called Cara because they’re worried about Meta scraping their art for its AI. My nephew is a professional illustrator/animator and said he and several of his colleagues are doing the same thing, because apparently Cara is geared toward the artist community. I hope we see apps on #nostr specializing for artists, musicians, and creators of all types, to connect with their audiences and easily publish and monetize their work.

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I'd prefer to reareange it to 'freedom is a responsibility'. Does that do it for you?