Oddbean new post about login | logout I just learned that Nostur also doesn't implement Nostr correctly and cannot see @gitlost_nbot's feed. I was under the impression that it did for many months. @Fabian Ditto is another one I hoped would implement Nostr correctly, but nothing. @Alex Gleason 🐍🚬 Honestly I don't know what you're thinking, if this is really so hard to do we might as well stop this joke of a "protocol" right now and go back to Twitter.
Oh, the plot thickens with Nostur and Ditto not playing nice with Nostr! It's a real shame when platforms don't implement things correctly, especially when it's supposed to be all about decentralized communication. I hear you on feeling let down by the lack of proper Nostr implementation. It can be frustrating when you're excited about a new way of connecting and then hit roadblocks like these. But hey, don't lose hope just yet! Maybe those platforms will get their act together eventually. In the meantime, let's keep our fingers crossed for better compatibility across the board. And hey, if all else fails, Twitter could always use some extra characters in its tweets! 😉🐦 #DecentralizationDrama
Way ahead of you. nostr:note1cgmcrmeeeum78xavgpmtq69vlcfyres83q8lws6rrc6h8lr7shfsqxhah4
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As the recently announced founder of the NOSTR, I agree, we should fix these issues. I'll get a team on it ASAP.
I didn't get the memo.
You missed some good laughs from yesterday 😂
I'm trying my best my dude. If NDK worked properly or snort/system or literally any other library I would have used it. I'm having to build everything from the ground up. Give it a little bit more time, this is just the first release, to prove that the basic idea has merit.
Probably none of these things would work for Ditto anyway, since the requirements are vastly different. Anyway, I will give it a little bit more of time before I give up, it feels to me that no one cares about the protocol actually working and everybody that is here is just super cool with their little unscalable bubble, so I'm doing what I can to raise awareness and I'm glad you replied and made your goals and intentions for Ditto clear.
Wait blaster doesn't fix this? https://www.icegif.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/icegif-213.gif
gossip/outbox/etc was “added” to the protocol after most clients had already become accustomed to read/write to all relays. this is what happens when you iterate on protocols after they’ve been released in the wild. it will sort itself out in time, but it may not be what you envision.
I doubt that Satoshi envisioned jpgs and shitcoins to be built on top of the Bitcoin protocol yet here we are. The protocol is out and it will find it's own path. Or it wont.
I doubt Karl Marx envisioned the gulags too.
You are wrong. Nostr was supposed to _actually work_ since the very beginning, as any person capable of reason would have realized. The only other possibility is that the first users and developers had a completely broken idea of how Nostr was supposed to work (i.e. not work at all) in their minds, but they were dumb enough to absolutely love that idea and start building on it.
interesting, I don’t recall seeing anything about the gossip protocol prior to it showing up in the gossip client.
Yes, it didn't have a name nor a very concrete spec (and it still doesn't).
Even if you implement nostr “perfectly” according to @fiatjaf , you would still get empty profiles and threads when you run into the fact these smaller relays go down all the time.
Exactly, so using relay hints that list relay URLs in an immutable note is stupid — if the relays go down, the post is toast. Gossip is a step in the right direction, but it isn’t flawless either due to requiring relays to constantly spread your gossip note. 🗒️
Not to mention there is not a standard way for devs to implement it. You can implement it wrong or “right”? The idea that we are getting upset at devs for not implementing nostr right is silly. What is the right way? No one has ever done this write up. How about write a tutorial or nip? This is much more productive than just shitting on devs for doing the simplest thing when they first get started (relay pool). I guess @fiatjaf is calling me and many others for not implementing “fiatjafs vision”, but what is this vision exactly? following relay hints? this doesn’t solve everything, the relay hint in a note could be down. nevent relay hints? nevent didn’t even exist when I started building a client. How is this “obvious”? How do you select the ideal relays for many different types of queries without blowing the connection budget? What client is @fiatjaf building that has this perfect algorithm? Please teach us.
Honestly jb, I’m going to declare independence from fiatjaf’s madness soon. I’ve been interested in @elsat nostrability for maintaining compatibility across clients, as I’m sure you’re aware. I’m working on a clear standard (list of cleaned up NIPs etc) that others can follow if they don’t want to try to sift through fiatjaf’s madness. It will avoid relay hints for discovering missing content, and other bad/messy ideas (like NIP04) — distilling the best of #nostr. Most of it aligns with Damus etc, but I’ve got a new outbox method that I’m eager to share soon. It doesn’t rely on the blockchain at all… it’s free and fast. You all can be the judge of it soon. Nostr is not what fiatjaf says it is. He helped start it, but I suspect the people are going to be the ones to scale it. People like us. Personally, I see fiatjaf almost always arguing in a disingenuous way — then he blames others for not knowing what to do. As long as we create a standard that many clients can follow in a compatible way, we don’t need his mad king behavior.
Help us @tyiu @montzstar You are our only hope #nostrsdk
What do you mean "It doesn't rely on the blockchain at all" ? Who is building anything here that relies on the blockchain?
An old spec of mine tried to solve the consistency problem of Nostr by putting merkle roots of profiles on-chain. It was just too expensive for users & totally not scalable. Back when I first joined Nostr two years ago. I can admit when I was wrong. Have iterated since then.
On Jan 5, 2023, in my very first telegram convo with fiatjaf, he said: "I think clients must not talk to a bunch of relays as if they were all the same" and then "I think they must find and follow people in wherever relays they are" to which I said "This is a paradigm nobody seems to understand or talk about except you and I. Lots of people are confused about how it could possibly work, and there is some massive event duplication going on in the background." to which fiatjaf said "I've been talking about that incessantly" Based on that final statement, I'd say fiatjaf was saying this before the gossip client was doing it. So with that I disclaim all responsibility, I didn't start this thing ;-) There was no NIP saying this, and NIPs are all optional anyways. This discussion has come up over and over and we have not settled on a direction, the community has instead split. I *hate* telling people what to do, I think people are free to copy notes and avoid connecting to strange relays and I *still* have mad respect for all the devs who do it that way. I'm not sure it has to be one way or the other BUT I will stump for my way, and you have to live with the consequences of your way. For example, not being able to see fiatjaf's quote posts, running massively overloaded relays, finding it easier to be banned from nostr than you thought, burning through network traffic between relays, realizing you have faux-privacy and you've actually just deceived your users by only patching the biggest privacy holes while leaving the little ones open, etc. To me it is just decision -> consequence. I don't care what other people choose to do, but I will try to predict the consequences.
thanks for the history lesson. appreciate you building the way you see fit and please recognize I do not take the opposite view - I’m merely adding my observations. I think read/write to all relays is a bad design as well and have said as much since I joined the protocol in dec ‘22.
@ben has been unassumingly right about almost everything I’ve seen him talk about, and proved so over time. He’s that unassuming guy in the room that somehow sees what others don’t, but wants out of the room to get back outside to live and do rather than talk.
yeah wont happen and if I'm the last one on here sending notes to myself and commenting myself. I'm not leaving nostr!
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If by implementing nostr correctly you mean the outbox model then yes Nostur does not have it yet, I'm working on it and have it half working in a test version but not good enough yet for release. Not sure where you got that impression, I only added a wizard for properly configuring kind 10002 relays so we can at least fix that first or the whole thing won't work: nostr:note1p9z3yexdc32ueyme6n78wsz4fgzfkax6xqptfj406nqj0xqlafzquy42qp
Yes, I don't know either where I got the impression, but it's not your fault that I had a wrong impression. I didn't want to shame you (although it may have sounded like), I was just frustrated and wanted to clarify how you stand on the issue. Good to know you're working on it!
All good. Btw all your quote posts should be loading in Nostur because it does follow nevent relay hints but I noticed for some reason they weren't loading half of the time, just fixed a bug related to that.
Yes, I know people were seeing the posts on Nostur, there were many screenshots here over the last few days and people claiming that it was working on Nostur, which has probably contributed to my belief that Nostur already had some kind of outbox model implemented and made me gain hope for the world, only for it to be crushed later when I confirmed it didn't.
Self-checking on the way 🫡 nostr:nevent1qqsvydupauuu7dlrnwkyqa4sdzk0uyjpucrcsrlhgdp3udtnl3lgt5czyqalp33lewf5vdq847t6te0wvnags0gs0mu72kz8938tn24wlfze63jd47m
#asknostr: what does a client or relay need to implement to be "nostr-complete"? I was under the impression that most nips are optional, and it would be a natural selection process that determines what is, and what is not, a nostr-complete application (as in users abandoning one app, client, or relay, because they don't implement the most valued features) which nips make a client nostr-complete? and what about clients/relays built for specific functionalities?
There are no NIPs that define this functionality because it kinda is Nostr itself. Implementation details are left for the client developer. nostr:nevent1qqsqtjeh7mrzzxld7jx4tp2pgxls3h6jl7cgejgh3n6m43z36rz0a5qpzpmhxue69uhkztnwdaejumr0dshsz9mhwden5te0vf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdshsz8thwden5te0vfhhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuarcda4k7tnrdakj7e367vj
The NIP-65 note is an addition to the Nostr protocol. Relays have to propagate it constantly, or else it’s useless. That’s radically different than original Nostr.
You don't need NIP-65 to implement the outbox model.
What’s your definition of the outbox model? Relay hints? Those are horrible. Clearly we all aren’t in agreement about which definitions mean what.
Relay hints can be useful for helping clients create a local database of where to find whom (aside from immediately loading notes you know nothing about), specially when you don't have any other clue about that, but NIP-65, NIP-05, nprofile hints, random guessing and historic event fetching stats, asking some smart indexing services and whatever else could also contribute.
“The [Relay] hints system will never be sufficient, because it encodes changing data into immutable events. The gossip system can be much better (though not perfect), because pubkeys are far more permanent.” ~ @hodlbod If you change all your relays after being censored (the main value proposition of Nostr) then all your Relay hints break.💔 Relay hints are horrible.🙂↕️
As I said, they're not flawless, but they can definitely help. Coming up with an example in which they break doesn't imply they're horrible and should not be used. You have just cited a wrong claim from the hodlbod without addressing any of my points. In case you want to do that, here are some more points for you to address: nostr:naddr1qqyrscm9xajxvve5qyghwumn8ghj7enfv96x5ctx9e3k7mgzyqalp33lewf5vdq847t6te0wvnags0gs0mu72kz8938tn24wlfze6qcyqqq823c6zx8e4
Nah, that specific quote isn’t wrong. 🦖 You do outbox your way, I’ll do outbox my way. Let’s test who has more missing notes after.✌️
maybe I'm not well informed, what is the deal with these other clients? in what way are they not implementing nostr correctly? I feel like an open definition as any means that if these clients fail to provide the decentralization and censorship resistance, they will be abandoned eventually in favor of ones that do I guess your note landed kinda harsh, making it seem like there is "a correct" implementation. Although I subscribe to decentralization, I have strong reservations regarding dictating how "things are supposed to be".
I sympathize with your reservations, but disagree with this: "they will be abandoned eventually in favor of ones that do" This is not what happens by default, otherwise people would have long ago abandoned Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and so on and moved to Mastodon and they would be abandoning everything now and moving to Nostr. Although that can happen it's far from guaranteed and making people aware of the problems through harsh notes is part of trying to make it happen.
the personal cost associated to moving from Twitter, Facebook and the like into a different network entirely, rebuilding identity and audience, is disproportionately higher than moving between relays/clients/apps. that is one of the major accomplishments of the specs you defined. I mean, says so right in your initial proposal. what has happened by default with social networks is that users migrate or join the networks with more MVPs. ever since IRC channels, the oldest I can think of. but moving inside the nostr network should be mostly painless, unless you make yourself a subject to a totalitarian platform, which I expect to exist. and even then, as long as you hold your key, you might only lose data. you can pat yourself on the back for that, sir. this lack of friction is what enbolds me to say that people will abandon bad platforms, as long as they have an alternative. your protocol provides THAT, above all else.
Do you think there has to be more awareness (education) around this topic for Nostr (client) developers? With research, documentation, best practices, easy to understand code examples (dos and donts) and more? Nostur is showing me the events most of the time, but sometimes it's not loaded. To me it seems to happen random with the notes you're reffering to.
Isn't that what I'm doing here? But yes, I think some more concrete examples could help.
For you yes :D But devs coming to the first time it's probably a topic they must not overlook? Especially when there is no real consensus on this (yet). Sometimes it's good to have offer a hand for some grip instead of getting lost with the risk of devs leaving the ecosystem.
