🌸 Blossom - Blobs stored simply on mediaservers

Blossom uses nostr public / private keys for users identities.

What is it?

Blossom is a specification for a set of HTTP endpoints that allow users to store blobs of data on publicly accessible servers

What are blobs

Blobs are packs of binary data addressed by their sha256 hash

Protocol specification (BUDs)

BUDs or Blossom Upgrade Documents are short documents that outline an additional feature that a blossom server may implement.

BUDs

• BUD-00: Blossom Upgrade Documents
• BUD-01: Server requirements and blob retrieval
• BUD-02: Blob upload and management
• BUD-03: User Server List
• BUD-04: Mirroring blobs
• BUD-05: Media optimization
• BUD-06: Upload requirements
• BUD-07: Payment required
• BUD-08: Nostr File Metadata Tags
• BUD-09: Blob Report
• BUD-10: Blossom URI Schema
• BUD-11: Nostr Authorization

Endpoints

Blossom Servers expose a few endpoints for managing blobs

• GET /<sha256> (optional file .ext) BUD-01
• HEAD /<sha256> (optional file .ext) BUD-01
• PUT /upload BUD-02
• HEAD /upload BUD-06
• GET /list/<pubkey> BUD-02 (unrecommended)
• DELETE /<sha256> BUD-02
• PUT /mirror BUD-04
• HEAD /media BUD-05
• PUT /media BUD-05
• PUT /report BUD-09

Event kinds

| kind | description | BUD | | ------- | ------------------- | ------------------ | | 24242 | Authorization token | 11 | | 10063 | User Server List | 03 |

License

Public domain.