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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bitcal / BitCal
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2025-05-24 08:17:52
Author Public Key
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2025-05-24 08:17:52Event JSON
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