it sounds good but does it work in practice? have you tried it? you could add a login and testing section that would test it out by uploading and chunking images.

I'm not a fan of storing media on relays personally (some apps like 0xChat do it with images anyway, it’s very odd), but if we were going to do it, a dedicated Storage Relay designed to store a single Kind for these shards would make the most sense to me, regular relays should not store files, che...

Makes me curious, I wonder how IPFS would interact with Nostr for larger uploads. I know it's slower than Blossom for things like images in microblogging posts, but for something like a magazine or other large file hosting it might be useful.

nostr:nprofile1qqs2352kp44xgl2sz6v3vujx7gmmxma3y0ufz68a5ywuws6n8lk85zq5wjjv7 sharding would cut availability, you'd need every shard online to rebuild a file so one server down loses it. blossom already does the resilient version, the same blob keyed by its hash mirrored across servers, so any one u...

Nice thing to prototype. A few honest technical thoughts: Blossom already separates blobs from relays by design — blobs are content-addressed (sha256) and served by Blossom *servers*, not relays, precisely so file storage doesn't bloat relays (see the BUD specs). So the "could this damage relays?"...