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I went to read this to understand how P2P can share a blog post and the assets associated with that. For example, how does this work when the HTML file is available, but the other assets (say an image the post) might be relatively available (meaning they also need to be stored P2P) but there might be css assets that are available on a non-P2P CDN. It wasn't obvious from this post how that is achieved. Anyone know?

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I am author of this article :)

In general of pure P2P architecture, shareing blog post text and assosicated assets is not impossible technically. For example, blog post message (data) shared between nodes can include all of assets for the post though the design may be not good.

In NostrP2P, users should want to attach image file to post. In the case, users upload image file to any server (image uploading service or GitHub or etc are also OK) and insert hyper link to the file to his or her post. Then client of NostrP2P show the image file (but not implemented yet...). This approach is adopted in (general and not pure P2P) Nostr protcol based microbrogging application.

Is it not pure P2P? OK. I suggest users to upload image file to IPFS :)

IPFS is the p2p standard or it was for decentralized file storage, i'd imagine something similar

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