Oddbean new post about login | logout I still don't get it. Where are these files stored? Whose computer
They are called home servers. Anyone can run one. You can run one in many mirrors. Think of them like relays but with full storage. In fact every relay can be a home server too.
dude, some time ago u argued that relays shouldn't have storage. Genuine question: why is it any different for homeservers?
relays are web servers, with the storage turned off flick a switch and you can turn storage back on you shouldnt store things in the RELAY, because it was just designed for text strings aka notes but all web servers have the ability to store stuff, that is, in fact their primary purpose a relay is a web server, with an extra function, namely realtime updates tl;dr web servers can do many things, they can store files, they can relay notes. But dont use the relay notes part to store files. Use the built in file storage part to do that. That could be a home server. And then you can route to it via your npub. But homeservers can live anywhere, they dont need to be a relay. And perhaps it's too confusing for most people to run both.
your hosting provider, just stop thinking from Nostr pov, and think; wouldn't it be nice if cloud hosting was also censorship resistant and you have a unilateral exist so neither DNS nor your hosting provider can censor you without a path for circumventing that censorship? That is what Pubky core offers, the same goodness of cloud hosting, without the risk of censorship and vendor lockin
That's pretty cool. Need to look into how to set this up.