Derek Ross on Nostr: In writing, NIP-95 sounds good. It allows our images to be decentralized! We don't ...
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.
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.