Dikaios1517 on Nostr: You and me, both. Hosting of media has been one of the bigger challenges for Nostr, ...

You and me, both. Hosting of media has been one of the bigger challenges for Nostr, and long-form video is probably the final boss in that regard. We've got good solutions now for photos and short-form video with Blossom servers, and maybe what franzap (npub1wf4…dgh9) proposed here will be part of the unlock for longer videos:

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The mind blowing part here is not my unix tool, it is showing that nostr is a practical decentralized alternative to Usenet NZBs (torrents are a different thing)

- Blossom servers do not need to store a whole large video file
- Blossom servers do not need to stream an entire large file
- Blossom operators have plausible deniability in terms of content as the segments are encrypted (and they may not have all) and they don't control the key

- Video clients now have mutiple failovers if a segment is stored in multiple servers
- There are bandwidth savings if the video is not watched entirely
- Content creators can exchange the AES key against a zap

Youtube, here we come.

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