Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

There's a lot of basic functionality missing that users expect from social media. Handling of media is a huge one. 16 MB avatars and master quality video are handled gracefully by centralized platforms. Nostr doesn't have this at the protocol level, and client & server devs can never agree on anything so I fear it's unlikely to get better anytime soon. I imagine video will be solved sometime after DMs are finally fixed 🤣

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musicmomma 1 month ago

The great @sammeans said on a @Plebchain Radio show recently “maybe @Ainsley Costello children will benefit from all of this one day” wanted to laugh and cry all at the same time 🤣😪😂😟😥

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Derek Ross derekross@grownostr.org 1 month ago

i remember arguing about 50MB profile pictures literally 3 years ago after i had used 10GB of mobile data the first 5 days of january 2023. 3 years later, it's somewhat of an issue. people don't like image proxy caches or thing that is centralizing so the solution there would be to have clients not display profile pictures over a certain size and clients optimizing media before uploading like Amethyst does.

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Ryan ryan@spatia-arcana.com 1 month ago

Yes it's sad I agree 😢 So much promise, but devs continually want to reinvent the wheel rather than looking at solutions that exist and work already.

Ryan ryan@spatia-arcana.com 1 month ago

That's one area where Amethyst fails funnily enough. It doesn't handle avatar uploads, but leaves it to the user, only having a field to enter an URL 😕