Oddbean new post about login | logout Is there any way to minimize the level of effort for a nostr user to “just connect” with the fedivers with say… a tap of a single button? I think that would be interesting addition to clients.
What does just connect mean? Isn’t that what relays are for?
Yes but it’s still a learning curve that we are already accustomed to but could be made more simple for people. A single opt in or toggle to connect to the fediverse
Agreed it’s a steep learning curve, I had to figure it out myself, I couldn’t find anyone that knew n e thing about it really except the people from the fedi
Basically dumb it down to where I don’t even need to think which instances I’m connecting to as long as I can talk to the bulk of the people. Perhaps and advanced link for more actions.
In nos.social we look at user look up / search and if it looks like a fediverse address we find the nip-05 from mostr and let users follow the fediverse account. It is under documented but works well. https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/blob/a1d75348703851e4f5a51ca3ac21c26ef61882e3/Nos/Service/RelayService.swift#L734
https://image.nostr.build/89f479417e7e3dcf280c18c0ea73691e3677841f2597fba2d478f6f7d32aada4.jpg
I also added that favicon today, nice to see it working.
@Derek Ross if you’re going to go full KYC you might upgrade your relay favicon to your PFP 😄
Wait. Is mostr kyc?
No. That was a comment on Derek’s relay icon.
My relay is only writable by my family's npubs by the way.
will you adopt me :D
Imo this is still too technical and could be abstracted away further without sacrificing choice
https://github.com/damus-io/damus/issues/1684 Havent explored yet. Was thinking today about a prompt if scrolling perpetually in universe view: “do you want to connect to the fediverse to discover more, and different content and users?” Yes/no.
What’s a good argument against not connecting to it by default in onboarding?
From a UX standpoint, nothing. From a mission and goals standpoint, centralization. If the bridge is taken offline it will create a hole in the network.
Have you tested fediverse bridges? Do they work, are you interacting with fedi folks, do you recommend adding mostr and/or other fedi relays by default? If fedi is significantly larger than nostr at this point are there issues with nostr users first point of contact being fedi users?
1. I have the mostr relay but I honestly can’t tell if I’m interacting with people in fediverse or not. 2. I don’t see any issues with fedi being bigger - why would that matter? People are people. It may even help with our corn content density. I’m all for default integration. Don’t even know why we’d look at it differently from any other nostr user? 🤷♂️
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