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@ Dikaios1517
2025-05-06 20:14:30
It's not anymore. Nostr.build now has a Blossom server (blossom.band) that you can use to host your media in conjunction with other blossom servers you may choose.
Prior to adding Blossom support, nostr.band only supported NIP-96 for uploading to their hosting service. I will admit my ignorance when it comes to the tradeoffs between NIP-96 and blossom. I believe both of them allowed for confirmation that the media had not been altered because you could compare the data received to the hash of the data, and you could upload the file to multiple NIP-96 hosts at once. But I think this still didn't allow for the media to be retrieved from other media hosts automatically if the original one was down or otherwise not responding, which Blossom does.
Also, it was common for people to ONLY upload to Nostr.build, and nowhere else for redundancy, since the media couldn't be retrieved automatically, even if they had also stored it elsewhere, so Nostr.build was not really any different from any other centralized data hosting service, other than their superior media management for those with paid accounts. Now, with Blossom support... Nostr.build is a really great service to have, even if they are only one of a few places you are uploading your media to.