What's going on with blobs?

[nichoth]

Blobs are not being gossiped when we sync with existing pubs

• [x] make sure that mentions are really blobs before putting them in an image tag. There can be other things in the mentions array, like user IDs & message IDs

• [x] are blobs being gossipped? -- no

• [ ] local vs remote blob transfer -- i can successfully transfer a blob between two sbots running locally. why does it not work on the server?

• [ ] how to test replication locally? When I start an sbot on my local machine, it does not acquire any data from remotes.

[nichoth]

Blobs are not transferred automatically by a secret-stack plugin.

The routes that need to look for blobs:

• [ ] '/profile/:username' -- the profile route -- get the user avatar image
• [ ] /feed/* -- the feed route -- get blobs referenced by messages