hzrd149 on Nostr: Just a heads up to anyone using the Blossom Drive app. It has not been maintained for ...
Just a heads up to anyone using the Blossom Drive app. It has not been maintained for over a year now and it has some major design flaws that cause it to loose track of blobs.
I only intended it to be an experiment to show how the blossom protocol works and how it could be used. sorry about the confusion but I should have put more warnings around the app.
It still works, just be aware that it is flawed and if your not careful it can loose track of the blobs (although the blobs still exist)
Self hosting media in a Nostr-native way is harder than it seems. Today I logged into Blossom Drive - the web UI to interact with Blossom server by hzrd149 (nprofile…48ut) to see most of my media uploads vanish from my media folder. Luckily it was just the preview functionality that went missing, not the blobs themselves.
Another GUI I use is bouquet by florian (nprofile…g85r) , but it struggled to display uploaded mp4 files (specifically the GUI preview).
The cool (but obviously way less visual and intuitive way) thing is that I can still browse blobs.
So as I uploaded a video file I took the blob, added .mp4 at the end of the link and voila, the file can now be shared and it supports preview functionality.
I guess the moral of my story is twofold:
1. We are so early
2. Self sovereignty is hard to reach, but possible. You just need to really want to do it.
https://blossom.hzrd149.com
https://bouquet.slidestr.net
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2025-05-24 16:44:20Event JSON
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