If I'm understanding correctly the final goal of blossom servers is to be censorship-resistant because they give the same hash so if it goes down the client can look for the same hash on other server and the server can be used over tor.
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Client can and probably will use the "url" field returned from the /upload endpoint when composing kind 1 notes. although the GET /<sha256> serves a different purpose Take this note for example View quoted note → If my main server cdn.hzrd149.com went down or the image was removed from it. clients could lookup my preferred list of blossom servers (kind 10063 event) and start going down the list asking each one for the exact same blob (without needing to know how the server works) 1. image 2. image Thats the point of requiring the "GET /<sha256>" endpoint to be in the exact same location on every server. so its super easy for clients to quickly fallback and check other servers
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Scoundrel 1 year ago
In that case it seems like it would be on the client to initiate the connection through Tor. I can't imagine a world where such a client would ever connect with such a server by default, unless that server exclusively stores content that would be fine on the clearnet anyway. Tor has been around for ages but I haven't seen a lot of interest from internet users. I was a regular visitor of one website that experienced deplatforming/web hosting issues and had to move to Tor for a period of time. During that period, I saw the number of users drop drastically. Nobody wanted to use Tor. Maybe it would be different if it was automatically implemented in Nostr; maybe it would catch on if it was more convenient. But personally I don't see the appeal of pushing to integrate censorship resistant media with Nostr. If someone wants to browse loli content, people have already found a few clearnet web hosts who will tolerate it. And if they are looking for actual CSAM/child pornography, I'm sure there are still plenty of Tor users and .onion sites sites that the FBI will never be able to touch. I don't want Nostr to drive away their users and piss off the FBI all so that they can provide a service that nobody wants or needs. I say leave Tor media servers for when we actually need them.