Has anyone thought of writing a database backend for Nostr? Like you could create different npubs for different DB tables, encapsulate whichever data types you like in normal notes, readable or encrypted. Then you can squat that database on public servers for free or host your own decentralized server network for mission-critical data.
Is there any benefit in this over hosting known DB software on normal servers, since you can HTTP-tunnel through Nostr as I heard?
You probably can't query a lot, although an interface could be added later on the server side if it doesn't already exist.
Also, database sizes can easily blow out of proportion if this catches on, so how would public servers deal with this?
I'm not very deep into the tech yet so forgive possible misunderstandings.
#asknostr
You will never be able to convince me of the legitimacy of Israel.
That's the position I once held, having been indoctrinated in the German-zionist education system.
And after learning about the facts of how it was created and at what cost to whom, I pivoted my position.
You need to understand that it's not possible to go back to the original position anymore.
Hello world.
I created this Nostr account because a total of 6 of my recent posts on the ongoing Gaza genocide got deleted on Instagram and Facebook combined, a genocide that my government as well as Meta is complicit in. As I write this, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has the Palestinian death toll at 28,091.
In addition to the outright deletions, my Instagram account is currently shadow-banned beyond recognition, to the point where it's essentially dead. This is unnerving because I still need it for professional promotion. My Facebook account on the other hand I simply deleted. Facebook has become completely unacceptable already before the recent war.
A decentralized social network like Nostr with immutable posts comes with its own set of challenges, though. Immutable means you're uncensorable, but it also means you can't delete your own posts or account. So if your fascist government decides they want to persecute you for stuff you said on the internet, you're stuck with your posts for good.
The Nostr protocol is designed to support post deletion I believe, but I couldn't figure it out yet. It's tricky because posts are mirrored across several servers across the internet to evade censorship and you need to get posts deleted on all of them at once. I hope this will be possible in the future.
In the meantime, the Fediverse (like Mastodon) may be a good compromise between consorship-resistance through immutability and decentralization, as Mastodon posts aren't immutable, and you can move your account to a different server outside of your government's jurisdiction while taking your followers with you.
Nonetheless, Nostr is very interesting, even if only for the post length ðĪŠ