Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource

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besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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I need some blossom service like this
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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Will check it out
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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Are blossom servers centralized or decentralized? #AskNostr
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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👌
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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No limit file sharing, hello.
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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Gracias 😊
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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😎👍
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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LFG
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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New service
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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Hope to reach complete independence in the near future of this server
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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S!ayer 5 days ago
Finally, a solution to shitpost upload across multiple servers at once!
FileDrop
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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nice
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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FileDrop can run directly on your PC, temporarily turning your computer into the host. You don’t need a domain, paid hosting, or server configuration. FileDrop automatically tunnels your files to the web, making them accessible from anywhere. After the upload/tunneling is complete, your PC does not need to stay online — you can turn it off and the files will remain accessible. Blossom, in contrast, works like a traditional CDN. It requires a domain, a server, and proper setup. If your Blossom server goes down, your files immediately become inaccessible. You can mirror your files to another Blossom server for redundancy, but that requires maintaining additional servers — which can also go down.
Ups
besoeasy's avatar besoeasy
Blossom servers aren’t truly decentralized — they still rely on centralized infrastructure. That’s exactly why I built FileDrop. FileDrop lets you upload media while staying fully anonymous, which is especially useful on Nostr, where privacy and censorship resistance matter. No media decompression. No file size limits. Run it yourself. Currently works with 0xChat — more apps coming soon. Try it here: 👉 Also available on Umbrel: 👉 #nostr #privacy #decentralization #filesharing #opensource
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no file size limit and other benefits, because of ipfs, but i guess the cost here is reliability goes down as the file size goes up, and the file being popular or not, and upload/download speeds fluctuates. i wonder if this can be updated to where we can significantly increase its reliability by adding economic incentives to it. Aside from an ads system (that's a thing i'll work on down the line that'll be an evolution to how something like google ads work), I'm thinking that you can query who holds the chunks and each has a fuel tank that basically indicates "i can guarantee I'll hold onto this/these chunks if there's gas (money) in my tank (wallet) for it" and either the uploader of the file or anybody else can see this and can send e-cash to these ipfs nodes. Basically the market decides to help significantly increase the chances of survival of the files/chunks they want on multiple ipfs nodes. There are a few issues to solve with such a system and a bunch of work to do to get things right if this is the direction, but it's interesting and opens up a market for more people and with less headaches =3
Great stuff. I built a private Blossom to IPFS gateway (Khatru based, despite the fact that the framework author does not like IPFS). My main problem so far is that when my CDN evicts media, latency increases substantially, even when I am acting directly as an IPFS host and gateway. It also seems to be a bit more bandwidth hungry, which is not a big deal. But aye, in terms of redistribution and redundancy it is ahead of Blossom, especially as most Blossom implementations out there take liberties with the specs and are not compatible with each other, nor even between clients. I totally gave up on BUD-04 mirroring, as client and Blossom server devs break compatibility faster than I can fix stuff on my side.
You're correct, however that issue was resolved starting with version 0.26. Adding incentive mechanisms would transform it into Filecoin, which isn't desirable for most users. IPFS works reliably - I've successfully tested it with files as large as 6 GB without any issues.
Thought so, it's the same as WebRTC or wireguard, or mesh networks like yggdrasil, you need one publicly connected peer atleast. I think blossom servers should implement a BYO storage BUD that inplements holepunching through yggdrasil. That seems like the sanest of all approaches.
Nice! It's great to see Ethereum/Web3 related technology used by Nostr 💪 I've been hosting an IPFS node (kubo) for 5 years+, if you have any questions, hit me up
I think I did play with a direct DHT Client as well as a cache-in-between the Blossom server and a local HTTP to IPFS Gateway with some aggressive catching headers (which gave me the best results as when the CDN evicts media, more often than not the bridge hits the cache instead of IPFS), but I'll revisit it for sure. And also play with your stuff, as if IPFS is enough Blossom becomes unnecessary.
I haven't seen any major deployments of Helia yet, but getting rid of the dependency on centralized gateways is direction where IPFS is definitely evolving... just like Ethereum is moving towards having stateless nodes. It's just going to take a long time, we're just at the beginning. Kubo will definitely be here for a few more years :)
Implementing ENS would be nice - but that would ideally require a separate NIP, because through NIP-05 it would be dependent on one centralized gateway like eth.xyz. A custom NIP would allow you to use your own Ethereum node or have several of those gateways set up for redundancy at least
Ah, fair. I haven't seen a more general "mirror button" in any other clients besides NoStrudel, only in Blossom-specific management utilities. One way or another, mirroring your own images or someone else's flows the same way in the backend. At the end of the day, it is a REST endpoint that the client calls, and both servers have to be mindful of what each other expects. One missing header on the origin server can be enough for the destination server to reject the media, so you are basically hostage to each dev interpretation of the specs or even of things beyond the specs. Thankfully, there is no such thing in IPFS, as it is basically torrent-style P2P stuff under the hood.
Lol. I'm... Increasingly disappointed and less invested in Nostr. So, not a hostage, but lacking incentive (more than financial incentive, if I'm being totally honest Nostr culture and content is just not for me... I don't think I'll be on NIP-01 for much longer, although I'm still interested in Alexandria, GRASP and a few "other things").