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Nostr partially addresses this in a few ways: * Media itself is not stored, only links to media. * Relays are free to limit usage, charge a fee or require pro
by kdragon 4y ago
Nostr partially addresses this in a few ways:
* Media itself is not stored, only links to media.
* Relays are free to limit usage, charge a fee or require proof of work.
* There are many kinds of messages with different storage standards i.e ephemeral messages are not stored at all.
- lucideer 4y agoNot storing media sounds odd (prone to linkrot), but I guess this feature is likely optional? I'm not an expert but the SSB scaling issues seem related to the architecture being tied to the sigchain, & general feed immutability. This makes it very difficult for pubs to, for example, accept/process subsets of posts or do anything out-of-order. It also makes it impossible for clients to limit local database storage, especially mobile clients where that might be at a premium. Even just the existence of ephemeral notes seems to indicate there's no such architectural limitation so that sounds really hopeful.