As the image shows, this is a qualification for FREE 1GB storage and hosting of your data.
This is a SERVICE PROVIDED much like the one Primal offers, or any nostr relay would need to offer, to survive.
My company offering to provide that service for free if you can prove you aren't a bot, but you don't have to use any specific service in Pubky, just like you don't have to use Primal or a premium relay if you don't want to.
This has nothing at all to do with the protocol or Pubky tech, it is just how computers, businesses and networks work.
But it does show that Nostr users don't really understand how any of these things actually work underneath, because they were taught by memes and podcasters, and are not actually interested in the tech at all, right?
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Since you compared it to Primal and premium relays, how can I join and use pubky for free?
But then this is not very different from paying nostr.build, Primal or whatever. You are a legal entity who has to comply with state mandated takedowns as do them.
Say what you want about altcoins but at least they have decentralized storage figured out in filecoin/storj/sia.
We should copy that but with bitcoin/lightning payments instead.
the difference with pubky is you can actually use central providers safely if you keep backups because your key is used as a domain name and you can point that to a new server anytime
Yeah but the next level thing to do would be something like:
1. Send sats to a DAO/smart contract/whatever
2. Encrypt & splice the data blob
3. Send it to some edge node
4. The network automatically replicates n copies of each of the fragments of the data blob
So it wouldn’t matter who gets which chunks of my data, could be a professional host or some dude in India with an hd plugged into a raspberry pi, providers get paid by how much they contribute. And have plausible deniability, since they can’t know what they’re hosting and to whom, there’s no legally binding contract between the parties.
Shitcoiners have that figured out for years now, though only for Dropbox/S3 style file storage, I’m sure we can do something better.
people want reliable data providers, not random dudes in India trying to make extra cash. your idea doesnt work because this is a reputation problem, not a protocol one.
Yeah, and people also thought big mainframes were better, then Google came clustering computers from the thrift shop and provided better uptime etc than its competitors.
Time and time again “many, cheap” wins over “few, expensive”.
Technical, you speak like someone who has never used any of the things you’re promoting. You’re literally “just saying things”. Shifting goal posts, but but but. Gain some experience in these different models, figure out what it is you actually want, and then come back to the conversation!
It appears that you haven’t understood my argument if you think I have shifted any goalpost.
I get the premise, but BlueSky makes the same argument. How many alternative servers are there actually in practice?
