New Nostr who dis?

For real though, Amethyst looks awesome, but it's a bit overwhelming... I followed a bunch of people and some of their followers so far.

How do I find conversations or microcommunities built around specific interests, niches, etc.? Can I use relays, or hashtags, for this?

I like music (nearly all kinds), hiking, skiing, reading, bitcoin, martial arts, good movies and tv, yoga and meditation, craft beer and fine wine, economics, traveling, and art (especially traditional Japanese and Mongolian painting/calligraphy). And probably some other stuff, but this should do the trick for now.

Happy to be here!

#introductions


You can follow us for some good tunes!
Engage with the community, that's the easiest way to find your people.


You can do searches for what your interested in, then follow people and hashtags.


Welcome to nostr!

If you want to follow topics or hashtags, zapddit is your client

Communities are still a work in progress though.

PS: I am a developer of zapddit


Welcome. Just follow a lot of people and you’ll find everyone. We’re not that big yet. 🤙


Welcome! A lot of cool interests :)
https://coracle.social supports communities and hashtags, try it and give us a feedback


Hi🙋🏻♂. Welcome to #Nostr.


Thanks! Looks like i followed you already lol


Followed, thanks for the welcome :)


Cool I'll definitely check it out. If I log into coracle with this same profile will it remember/recognize all my account settings and stuff?


Thank you!


Cool, followed you! Will definitely try following hashtags, thanks


Followed :)


Yes, it picks your profile (name, bio, picture, etc) and your relays setting.


Welcome! Good starting place to get acquainted 👇
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Sweet - does Coracle "ask" Amethyst for these details? Or do my relays store the info?


Clients talk only with relays, so your data is pulled from relays. There are a couple of discovering mechanism that permit that automatically, if you don't find the same relays after the login you have to instruct the app to use yours entering them manually.


Okay got it. Thanks again! Once I'm more familiar with amethyst in general I'll check out coracle. Any other clients you would recommend?


For mobile you can try Yana, less features but lighter.

For desktop, Gossip.
But I alert you that it's a little hardcore  :)


Thank you for the recommendations!


Get a Lightning address so we can light you up!


I have a phoenix wallet but not seeing how to connect it... Looks like a lot of people use Alby but that's wait listed (and custodial). What do you guys recommend?


Phoenix is good for a basic Lightning wallet but it doesn’t give you a permanent address for receiving zaps.

Alby is in the process of going self-custodial so they’re not adding many new users at the moment.

Depending on where you live some options for you are:

Custodial:
Strike
Primal
LN.tips bot on Telegram
Stacker.news

Self custodial:
Zeus with a Zeus Pay address
Mutiny (the latest TestFlight)


Is it safe to put my private key into Mutiny to set up a wallet that is automatically connected to my nostr account?


(I lean pretty hard to the full nym, self custodial, kyc-free approach whenever possible)


Yes, the key is only stored locally on your phone.


It’s a little bit of work because you have to set up Mutiny + and then join a Federation but once you’ve gone through those steps you should be all set.

nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv Did I miss anything?

https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-new-design-people-oriented/


OK thanks - I've listened to a handful of interviews with Tony and Ben on CD & bitcoin.review and they don't seem like type to rug social media account handles lol

And mutiny the wallet is completely open source right? Not that I could review the code but presumably a handful of people here have


How do I identify a high quality federation? Does mutiny have an official/starter kit kind of thing?

Perhaps a question for you, tony?


Yes, nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv and nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz are here if you run into any trouble.

Sometimes Tony gets salty with me but you just wanna give the guy a hug when you see him. 🫂


Lol sounds great

I'm looking at the "freedom one" federation which looks recommended by tony, Odell, Ben, and a couple of other familiar faces so let's go with that...


It also looks like a lightning address is only available to paid users, which I'm definitely gonna do but I would imagine is friction for new nostr users... Or is there another way to send and receive zaps using Mutiny without the paid test flight configuration?


Not yet, we'll have a free one eventually


Not yet, hopefully this becomes a free feature at some point. I agree, it isn’t very newbie-friendly at this stage.


Gotcha. I just tried to send about 1M SATs from Phoenix tonmynnew mutiny acct via lightning but it hasn't reflected any change. Is it waiting for a channel confirmation? If so, it would be good to indicate that to the user waiting for his funds to arrive ;)


FYI – I’m trying to pay the Mutiny+ subscription fee but it can’t find a route.


Mutiny node connectivity issues? I feel like it's usually that when multiple users can't connect to a LSP sort of thing... Right?


OK, I finally got it working after a bunch of tries and waiting an hour.

Can you shill me a federation?


Remember to add a Lighting address to receive zaps!


I tried joining Freedom One, but have yet to receive the channel opening payment so I'm feeling less trusty, more verify-y at the moment


Working on that! Thank you :)


Where’s the invite code for this? I’m not seeing anything under Discover Federations.


There was a button/CTA to join a recommended fed, this was second in the list. What if you go to the settings sidebar and click federations?

Try this invite code

fed11qgqzz8mhwden5te0vejkg6tdd9h8gepwvchxjmm5w4hxgunp9e3k7mf0qyqjpj2ykt73ullqfj58lxjh67y5ed53zm8vvfjvk5h65ufz3a8v2nxky9wuce


There we go. Took me a few tries, so there’s definitely some friction to work out in the process, but I finally have a Mutiny+ address!

thedaniel@mutiny.plus
https://image.nostr.build/8548c97926c256ac889d8853dca15903fd58bfde887c1c99a52c79caed822185.gif


And once again zapping a mutiny user from alby seems to always be temperamental.


Did it work?


Hopefully it went through. Always shows me the orange timer logo here in Damus.


Yes, it worked! Zaps from nostr:npub1qdsjkr46urkg6vqrr3zqhgy8l7dazc5k9hlm5jmwqg0vft7hzgtqamgfw3 and nostr:npub10vu5jqhw4kurwzf37xgr6qzkj4z7ssgnld4qjc6xv3mrhc3jqzwqnm4qs4 came in, plus a test from my node.

Once the onboarding flow gets easier, this is going to be one of the best ways to get zapped. Very fucking cool, guys.

🙌⚡ https://i.nostr.build/6GKMn.jpg


Excellent 👍🏼


New Nostr who dis?

For real though, Amethyst looks awesome, but it's a bit overwhelming... I followed a bunch of people and some of their followers so far.

How do I find conversations or microcommunities built around specific interests, niches, etc.? Can I use relays, or hashtags, for this?

I like music (nearly all kinds), hiking, skiing, reading, bitcoin, martial arts, good movies and tv, yoga and meditation, craft beer and fine wine, economics, traveling, and art (especially traditional Japanese and Mongolian painting/calligraphy). And probably some other stuff, but this should do the trick for now.

Happy to be here!

#introductions


Welcome! Follow hashtags to find topics you're looking for.... ✨

Like
#foodstr
#yoga


I think communities at the protocol level is the next most important thing that needs to be built


We share some interests!  I suggest following hashtags (possible in many clients, I think including amethyst) and posting about what you’re interested in, including relevant hashtags.
For example, I’d like to see some of your fav Mongolian art 😁


Follow tons of people.
Follow hashtags.

Comment on people's stuff.

The more you interact the more you get it off Nostr. Your vibe affects your tribe but also like you have to look for it if that makes sense?


#asknostr

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Onward 🫡


Welcome! Follow lots of people and unfollow if it doesn’t feel right! Growing community of musicians here 👋 including me!


Oh and find new music and zapping on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5  and nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg  nostr:npub1wavlkfxwc4hu2a2sw4x23akjccqc8k39xly08qgglheg8vs2pevq592dmq


yo, i wanted to follow up and say i downloaded and have been using Gossip, and it's downright brilliant. great rec!