fiatjaf on Nostr: I think that Blossom can be "the IPFS that works", but just in theory. I haven't seen ...

I think that Blossom can be "the IPFS that works", but just in theory. I haven't seen its magical link-resurrection capabilities working in practice.

Maybe a simple start would be an app where you can post a Nostr event reference and it would do the appropriate Blossom link-replacing there for you, in case you're on a client that doesn't do that automatically.

quoting nevent1q…85vg

Venjent is a Drum and Bass artist, that appears to have traction. He got attention by way of making shorts with remixes using samples of semi-ordinary sounds from other videos.

And later turning them into full songs.


He clearly is filling a bit of a void within Drum and Bass, which is a sentiment reflected many of the comments on his videos.

All of this got me thinking, what would be needed for an artist like Venjent, to establish himself on Nostr?
The sales pitch for content creators is one of sustainability/robustness in ‘presence’; you can claim a name and build a following on it where you can keep your content available. But is this currently true? Somewhat true? Mostly a promise for the future?

Lets ignore the headache that is key management for a moment (convenient, I know). What about the content? We appear to be settling on blossom; or how a random person once put it:
‘IPFS that works’
But does it? How resilient are those videos that I share in this post? How easy is it for me to host this stuff elsewhere; and how good are the clients in figuring out a different source when the original link is dead? How smooth is it now, and how seamless will it become?

Now I am not arguing that everything has to still be there in a 100 years, and stuff can function fine for a while before initial links break; but what if you want to keep your things around, can you?

And is it actually an important component in convincing content creators to come to Nostr, do they care?

Currently Venjent is on youtube with 808k subs, where his latest release got around 30k views in a day. So he is doing well there. Would be cool to see artist explore Nostr. Perhaps even cooler if at some point in the future, new artist instead of on youtube or tiktok, rise up here.