Alrighty, thanks 🙏 First hint. 

 What the hell is Blossom?

And can we rename nostr to Blossom? 🌼🤔


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 I think it's just a server to host files of any kind. You can self host it 

 Is it a nostr innovation or is it nothing to do with nostr? 🤔 

 Most likely, the files are stored on relays 

 I was wrong, it's not storage in relays. You sign storage with your Nostr keys

https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom 

 I know nothing. I'll just assume it's cool lol 🆒 

 Lol 😂 

It's just Nostry stuff, so it's cool

I just know you can host files on a publicly accessible server 

 Can blossom help save archivedotorg 🤔 #asknostr 
 

 Think of it as a cloud drive where you save stuff using your keys instead of a username and password 

It's publicly accessible  

 I dunno much but the techies are very horny about it 😂😂 

 No, archive.org is over 1000x bigger and already has ipfs so does not need blossom 

 If the infrastructure running blossom grows, yes. 

But isn't archive an open source project already? It'd probably be ideal to build a plug-in for archive to use blossom as a backend, then folks could save what they want on their personal blossom servers (get this into start9) and then a nostr based front end for archive could be spun up, you plug in the url and it searches the various blossom servers in your wot and presents you the results, would be ideal to charge 1 sat per page or something to cover infrastructure cost.  

 Nostrifying Peertube would be awesome, especially with full Blossom integration. 

Or extending flare.pub with a Blossom only integration... 

 Mh, sounds like great future options 🙏 I'll look more into Blossom. And for the moment self-hosting with PeerTube and then just linking to Nostr sounds nice and feasible. 

 nostr:nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsggqj26 recently dumped his Instagram feed into blossom. 

 Blossom would work however its not quite there yet, You would have to encode and optimize the videos yourself and they would only have one resolution setting

There is the option of using HLS (which is what twitch uses for providing multiple resolutions of a video) with blossom or any other hosting service, but you would still have to convert your videos to HLS which is even harder than mp4 😞 

I think @Kieran was working on HLS in zap.stream and @jb55 was also experimenting with encoding videos to HLS  nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqvhpsfmr23gwhv795lgjc8uw0v44z3pe4sg2vlh08k0an3wx3cj9qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3kamnwvaz7tm5dpjkvmmjv4ehgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qqsxhezqs2vd9e5jcgg9u5jwa94da49xv4pz7vdek8ca2atgx426ajsmfx8yj

I also created a hacky experiment for uploading HLS videos to blossom https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom-hls-upload (sorry there are no instructions) 

 Ooookay, very nice! I definitely need to check and keep an eye out on the workings of blossom then. Thanks a lot 🙏 

 It's probably pointless to reply to this so late, but "encoding and optimizing the videos yourself" is the foreseeable future for decentralized video hosting. Everyone has a powerful phone or computer that's usually idle for at least several of every 24 hours, so it doesn't make sense to expect video hosting infrastructure to dedicate idle resources to doing that for everyone.