Nostr and IPFS are similar in that they both use content IDs. I think the network layout is different tho. IPFS does hops or something. Files take 10 minutes to load or not at all. When you host a file, nobody copies it.
Nostr works a lot better for sharing content, as long as the events are small enough and can be represented as text. It will get replicated and served relatively quickly.
I don't think it should ever be a general purpose "drive". But it might make sense to store some types of text files on it, and there are probably interesting ways it could be used we haven't discovered.
Alex Gleason /
npub108…uyev6
2023-08-20 03:50:31
in reply to nevent1q…z7kh
Author Public Key
npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6Published at
2023-08-20 03:50:31Event JSON
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