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Dissident Sound 1 year ago
who is paying for all these servers ? i don't think this is the innovation anybody needed at this point in time. what would be better is to use some kind of AI image recognition to find all similar images and substitute the missing image with the closest looking one. for example there are thousands of images of a Nostrich or Bitcoin and you could replace any one of them with any of the others and it would make no difference. there are also thousands of images of Trump or of fat feminist with purple hair and so on ... our problem is we have TOO MANY REDUNDANT images already, and your solution is to increase redundancy further 10X i'm not hating by the way. you build cool things for free and we are grateful. but my ideas are always best. you know it, i know it and everybody knows it. @fiatjaf
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hzrd149 _@hzrd149.com 1 year ago
Running servers and hosting a small collection of personal images isn't expensive, people do it all the time with wordpress and other blogging platforms. The purpose of blossom is to use the sha256 hash of those files in the url. that way you can verify the file hasn't been tampered with. and if its no longer available from the original server, a client can ask other servers since the hash is universal Also since sha256 is a universal ID for a file. it allows you to re-upload the exact file if it was take down or your moving servers. most apps that allow image uploads (like discord etc) don't even have a concept of re-uploading an image also why do you tag fiatjaf on every other post?
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