upload your content and post it anywhere

You're right to ask—IPFS does lack a built-in economic incentive like blockchains often have, which is a common point of confusion. But think of it this way: unused storage is wasted storage. If you’ve got 100 GB of disk space and you’re only using 1 GB, that remaining 99 GB is just sitting idle. Why not let it do something useful? In practice, people often host content they care about—like files from people they follow on Nostr or communities they’re part of. When you pin (i.e., intentionally store) someone’s content, you’re helping keep it online. And because IPFS is content-addressed and peer-to-peer, your node automatically shares those files with others who request them. It’s like a collaborative spiderweb: everyone contributes a little, and in return, everyone can access what they need. Plus, if you store your own files on IPFS, other nodes can serve them on your behalf when you're offline—as long as someone has pinned or cached them. So the more people participate, the more resilient the whole network become

It shouldn't be difficult, perhaps you could create an issue on GitHub requesting that they implement file-drop functionality.

I received numerous direct messages, so with the holiday season happening, I provided a basic explanation in one unedited recording. A more comprehensive video will be released soon. Perhaps someone skilled at creating YouTube content could produce a video that explains file-drop in detail.

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https://filedrop.besoeasy.com/

I haven't utilized Start9 up to this point. I plan to review the documentation and potentially incorporate it when I have available time.

Use https://0xchat.com/ for best experience

The Umbrel team handles releases themselves, and I'll let them know to push a new one—though they're slow and test things internally, so it might take 10 to 15 days. I always suggest using Docker for full control.

FileDrop is now Nostr-native. Set your NPUB and your node keeps your media, no matter where it was uploaded. Own your media. This is real decentralization. https://github.com/besoeasy/file-drop

Sorry, I reduced the bitrate so the video file size wouldn't be too large.

Better now 😃

Nice work on the UI! The only thing I noticed is that the text doesn’t scale quite right on larger screens—otherwise, everything looks solid.

I'm also assisting my friends in hosting files.