Oddbean new post about login | logout Let's say I care about "HAM radios". 1. I join a group chat 2. I discover it has a FORUM too and is not just a chat 3. Then, I discover: - it has shared docs (that I open/use from the same app) - the people in that group are hanging out in Nests every wednesday (that I open/use from the same app) - I can see the podcasts, movies, recipes, ... these people valued (and open/use all these form the same app) - some forum posts are simultaneously posted in other groups and I meet a bunch new folks that care about a related subject - ...
sounds a bit like what satellite is trying to be/do
💯 I need to talk some more with @Stuart Bowman about the "Chat meets Forum" aspect of communities that keeps getting overlooked. Most current solutions: - either act like they can blend them together in one feed (Thinking: it's the same people in the end, right?) - or they create two entirely different tools for each aspect (not realizing the same group of people almost always needs both)
What software are we talking about here? I'm a lover of forums & always believed forums should be intergrated into chat apps since now chat apps are basically the new free webpage hostings. I was happy when Guilded put forums into their chat app that was very nice, when spyrecord added threads it's not a forum replica but it's nice the way it is & the matrix I love the thread view this makes matrix feel good having forum threads. I don't know why people are against forums it's a great way to keep track of specific topics as the rest of the chat keeps yapping away making all the text scroll up super fast. Are we gathering devs to build a new chat app? If so come into my circle & lets get cracking skulls. I want a self-hostable full gui customizations (every aspect not just the baclground & no text color changes) foss app with forums built in with a full WYSIWYG editor not oh just use markdown if ya know it. #chaton #forumsforever #forumsrule #fosd #gatherdevs #Bitcoin #BTC #Nostr #Lightning #Zap #Zapathon #Zaps #Plebs #Plebchain #GrowNostr #Nostriches #Money⚡ #Zapatime #Happy #RideThe⚡ #Zapstr #Plebdrive #Zapdrive #zapchain #bitchain #boost #share #boosted #bitdrive $boost Come nostriges onto SimpleX lets get brainstorming! https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-5&smp=smp%3A%2F%2F1OwYGt-yqOfe2IyVHhxz3ohqo3aCCMjtB-8wn4X_aoY%3D%40smp11.simplex.im%2Fu1AqxBdpGX7IjZ74F5H98xxYn_oI_PIK%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAmgo4PVlg6L-YyASR7_PGZgvAgeXyTHOLmWqAVkE-sjM%253D%26srv%3D6ioorbm6i3yxmuoezrhjk6f6qgkc4syabh7m3so74xunb5nzr4pwgfqd.onion&data=%7B%22type%22%3A%22group%22%2C%22groupLinkId%22%3A%225R1cLs7MuxTkMIfeezR8IA%3D%3D%22%7D
This is beyond phenomenal. It seems like Nostr doesn't just solve the nomadic identity problem of ActivityPub... it also make Single Sign On and app integration trivial. I am in love with this protocol and the love grows the more I learn about it. :)
I love DVMs, but I increasingly feel like they're a bug-fix for improperly-conceived interfaces. We should be following people we encountered in a natural way, because they share our interests (but not necessarily our opinions). And then the SM feed becomes the interactions of those people. We need to turn the Twitter idea inside-out.
Yup, I'm coming to a very similar realization. Putting common interests first leads to group chats / communities as a natural solution. Instead of filtering out those interest from a public feed that has every fart anyone makes about anything. But: 1. Often you want to share a thought or question with more than one community since interests and topics tend to overlap. This is the huuuuge opportunity current solutions miss and something Nostr is architecturally built for. 2. Big Tech communities don't have free market forces driving the conditions and costs for accessing those communities. So they can't allow this.
"Following someone" in the community first approach would be more like: - putting them on a NOT SPAM list - adding them to a list for later retrieval / contact / use Not, show me everything these person do on my homescreen
Fr, tho. 😂
Yup, I'm coming to a very similar realization. Putting common interests first leads to group chats / communities as a natural solution. Instead of filtering out those interest from a public feed that has every fart anyone makes about anything. But: 1. Often you want to share a thought or question with more than one community since interests and topics tend to overlap. This is the huuuuge opportunity current solutions miss and something Nostr is architecturally built for. 2. Big Tech communities don't have free market forces driving the conditions and costs for accessing those communities. So they can't allow this.
Fr, tho. 😂