The content can be hosted anywhere. When you upload through the site, it's going to AWS (just because that's what I have set up) you could host it on your own server and just paste the url

Um… we do all consider AWS a centralized, censorship-prone platform? I love the idea of it, but decentralized storage is key sticking point

I can paste the url without your service, what's the point?

Had the same question.

If users wanted to have more ownership of their content, would it make sense to set up our own S3 bucket? I’ve never done that before but if there were a plug-and-play way to do this it would reduce Flare’s overhead. I’d also like to do the same for hosted images, essentially having the core functionality of an image host like nostr.build but one where I manage the storage. And to make it even more useful, this would ideally have client-side integration for media uploads.

Isn't an S3 bucket still controlled/owned by Amazon, AWS? They could rug you if they want to.

Technically, but if you’re the customer it’s probably less likely than if someone else controlled all the file access. I don’t know if Amazon would care what you post unless they got a specific instruction from a law enforcement agency.

How does seeking work? It seems to work, but from what little I know about video content delivery, it seems like it shouldn't. I expected something like HLS but that doesn't *seem* to be going on.

Content discovery for nostr.