If you’re new and having issues with slow or weird nostr behavior, check your relay list and make sure you have at least 5-6 relays. I see some people with 3 and that may cause issues.


Same. The new user experience is not ideal yet. People still have issues with relays for example.


Still want to see a good pinterest, instagram and tiktok competitor on nostr. There's so much value in visual content and we haven't even bothered scratching that surface.

Imagine the interoperability of a curation platform with a shopping platform, both contributing to the creator's sovereign identity vs fighting against one another.

Massive potential.


Essentially, your follow list gets saved to certain relays by one client. You go to another client and add or remove a follow and instead of taking your existing list into consideration, it creates a new list, nuking your existing one because relays only keep the most recent version of your follows.

This is why backing it up on the regular using Citrine or other tools is a good idea.


Profound thoughts like this need a place to be expressed.

#Nostr is that place.

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The reaction you get when you tell people you can log in with their npub and see who they are chatting with.

We need Privacy by Default. Dont assume it is.

https://m.primal.net/KMFe.jpg


The Paradox of Privacy: The Inability to Delete Messages or requests  #nostr it’s already disappointing


https://image.nostr.build/e34071b181374ae14eb5fa0a904de78a422c57726b1305b94a1e2e3275b2f6ef.jpg  nostr:note1k9u6gujlnymw5s499k744xrwmtxa6d9zvw3angg0wxjf5uggdygque6hlj


#cyberbullying
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NPCs gonna NPC

#BitcoinAutism


When will fj fix this


Devs do something.


we have nip-04 which are end-to-end encrypted but leak metadata. We have a newer spec (nip17) which hide metadata and are also end-to-end encrypted.

We are working on a new group encryption spec that is efficient for large groups but its experimental.


#BitcoinAutism


Nostur wiped my follow list 😓😓😓


This is heresy to the Church of Bitcoin!

#BitcoinAutism


😉
https://image.nostr.build/ef1ecf6ebd581f0f75644a0120a7415bd3941b6a40c77bda92ae695327c1a739.jpg


We need to fix this. It's a bad first impression for anyone joining who don't follow someone right away.


So much spam in global


🫨
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Shit like this is exactly why marketing isn't what Nostr needs right now. It needs to just work without some irritating issue popping up with every use. And I don't say that to be mean. It just isn't ready for mass adoption yet. Big marketing would just draw a lot of people in only to piss them off enough that they never come back. I only keep using it because of my fortified support for freedom tech. Most normies won't deal with the problems Nostr and clients still have unless they value freedom more than convenience. Most people don't and don't want to be beta testers.


So I get back on nostr after a hiatus.  I spin up a nostr relay node.  I play around with it for a while.  This  time a nostream node.  The last one I spun up was a nostr-rs-relay node.  Anyhow a couple weeks later after scrolling through the nostr feeds and monitoring the server ...  I took it all down.  I enjoyed playing around with nostr, zaps and the lightening network but need to move on   #nostr #nostr-rs-relay #nostream #relay #zapstr #zaps #ln #btc #movingon


DONT COME ON NOSTR TO JUST POST ABOUT NOSTR AND BITCOIN

POST ABOUR EVERYTHING AND ANYTHING.

it always comes across fake to just post about bitcoin and nostr.


What about seeing notes from June... today?
🤣
Cuz that happens to me all the time!


#BitcoinLove


Nostr is very dangerous

Once you put your profile and notes out there, they're there FOREVER

delete.nostr.com doesn't work. Most relays are read-only

You can change your profile, but cached copies are all over the place and they don't fucking sync

By the time you find all this out, it's too late

Don't #grownostr 😂😂


What if I walked away from this npub and just started a new one? I could probably figure out how to clone all the important stuff over.

I doubt my followers (both of you) would mind that much, and I'm no infloonzer, so my clone would likely just be me.

One feature of nostr that has bugged me for a while is the inability to delete notes. I'm used to deleting most of my history on other platforms, quite intentionally. Sure, a relay might eventually remove your note, but another may not - so you have no way to know if your history is out there still, or no.

I value being able to forget. Being able to re-create. I've had to be way more careful to stay mostly anon here than on normie social media. It feels limiting, rather than freeing.

I may be free of being cancelled or shadow banned, but I am very much not free of the real world consequences of anything I say, at any point in the future, whenever my past may be examined against criteria I wouldn't be able to even imagine in the present.

What if, in 5 years, my wife learns how to use nostr and looks back at this npub's history and decides it was somehow disrespectful to her?

What if it wasn't my wife, but my government? Or the government of the nation I am trying to enter? Or a police or legal action?

Winding myself up a bit. Not sure how this plays out. I'll put it like this - If this npub stops posting, it likely won't be because I am gone. I'll still be around, just respawned under a new clean npub.

My social graph doesn't feel that built up anyway. Does it serve me? Or do I serve it?


Bitcoin is probably not working too well in Gaza either.


Yeah my dad’s mate knows someone in the CIA and they said Satoshi is an active agent


Staggering incompetence from the nostr devs

They now want to change the core protocol to cancel up to 50% of the nostr user base.

The whole point of nostr is that you cant be cancelled by a central authority.  FFS.


So my super old nostr posts are gone forever ? Sucks bc I had some dope AF creative writing I posted but forgot to save for my own personal use =(


NoOoOoOoOoOoOo https://t.co/zPnkZ0KX6z https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GTlLohRXkAAuOWC.jpg


FYI - site isn’t loading


Nobody cares about nostr right now
And with nobody I mean most of the people


There are not enough users here, yet. Users will attract big personalities, and the big personalities will attract users. Chicken and the egg.


Why is there spyware all over nostr and nostr dot com and njump dot me.  And why do most of the devs simp for fiatjaf and benarc that put it there?  Follow the money to get the clue:

https://m.primal.net/JgtH.png


Playing with their Bitcoin


15 years later and nobody uses bitcoin as money. most of our volume comes from sideshow protocols like inscriptions nostr:note1suk9zjxwms29l2ucsx9xep3j59404zhmw2vcezz9wucgn5sc6kvs6cfdr0


I understand. It would be strange to see things change, but again, I understand.  My @Damus just got weird where it switched overnight to light mode, and now I can’t find any settings to change it back. Also my avatar is now a robot thingy that all new npubs get. Primal was also switched to light mode inexplicably, but at least aI have a setting to change the appearance in that client.


The people controlling the protocol, like NIP-01, should really let the community know who they are. Keeping this secret is unhelpful. It's time for transparency. Let people know who controls Nostr so they can verify, not just trust.

The NIPs are getting to the point where they hamper innovation for all but a few developers. While those few benefit greatly, the broader innovation is stifled. This wasn't true at the start of Nostr, or even two years ago. We need to return to a place where 1,000 flowers bloom. It was like that before, and it can be again.

Saying "let the market decide" is just a lazy trope, in my opinion. Often, it means letting the government decide since they ultimately control markets. Nostr should be a place of creativity and fascination for all developers, not just a handful.

Regarding the topic, the tags, kinds, and ideas are becoming a technical debt mess. This isn't criticism; it's expected. Most ideas are bad ideas, and the NIPs were designed to move fast and break things. At some point, there needs to be a review and curation of what works well, what can be standardized, and what can be made interoperable, scalable, and extensible. First-move wins were great initially, but we need more now.

There are also people and political problems. Some call it the "elites," though that can be a lazy term because many excellent devs are in the inner circle: you, Kieran, Alex, Martti, Brugeman, Miljan, and many more. But there could be ten times as many devs. Remember how many more we used to have and all the people we lost, like Greg. We need a few tweaks, a few cleanups, and for the "elites" to be less dismissive, transitioning to an open, transparent, community-led project. The problem is that you think you've done that already, but you haven't.

One way or another, things will need to be cleaned up, curated, and improved. The NIPs were a quick fix to help clients work together. In the longer term, we need to pick out the best bits to create new generations of apps.


The Nostr NIP system has been incredibly useful, but it's reaching a point where fixing one thing breaks two others. Competing ideas and sketchy interoperability are issues. It might be time to take some parts of Nostr and allow wider review from mature standard bodies, leading to, enhanced scalability and interoperability.


I prefer the security of using a separate password and account. No thank you. Not until we can get an NSEC bunker. Currently nostr keys are ever compromised, EVERYTHING gets compromised.


Actually, it's pretty painful with all that wss connections and zero synchronous endpoints (there should be some).


There is also no way to recover control of a compromised nsec. It's a trade-off.


And there's no way to recover a NOSTR account if you leak your nsec.

Pretty big bug, Devs should fix it...

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New meme variant

https://image.nostr.build/a58abaf0416ecc361bc6a9955884ec8f0f9d7d7d025311b450158ea23fa75e24.jpg


yeah, we could talk about how there is mostly no way to stop other people reading who you are writing DMs to also, a problem that could be solved with auth and paid relays but don't tell fiatjaf about it


I now take more than I give with established social media, and this is reversed on Nostr. But Nostr-only is not in the cards for now.

Nostr simply does not have the rich network of people engaged in some of my interests that Facebook or Reddit does, YET.

This means that if I # asknostr something about pottery, there are like six of us here 🤷🏻♀ they might or might not have a good answer, and might or might not see my post.
If I really want an answer, I can pop on Facebook where I have access to 3+ slightly different groups of hundreds of potters each and get 10+ answers in minutes.

Or when I visit the Biblical Christian Egalitarians group on Facebook, I learn a ton, get inspired, and feel less alone.  I’m the only person I know of posting about this remaining on Nostr now that nostr:npub16llpfttm85ltrqc5ggyu5snfq38x6vwhanyrhrddpn43ylt3wdxqa99rf5 has left.

Learning and community are, to my view, the primary purposes of social media. I’m focusing on building here, and spend most of my social media time here by far. But when I want these things for myself, I still turn to centralized sources — not because I love algorithms or ban hammers, but because that’s where some of my people still are. They just aren’t here yet in numbers. And numbers do matter sometimes.

This is not a complaint about Nostr. “You can’t get mad at it, it’s just a baby!”

It is:

1. Solidarity for those who aren’t Nostr-only. Despite all the weird factionalism, there is no one right way to use this platform.  Feel free to consider influence but discard pressure.

2. Encouragement to everyone to post on their niche interests AND keep trying to purple-pill people with niche interests.

3. A humble request to devs to continue working on user experience in communities/groups as far as possible.

#grownostr #notnostronly #keepnostrweird nostr:note1unmsm3rs6cgtqkdznc9nwaly0u8akdsymfkcd8t7k8f8l8t3xawq7v7ma2


Meh, where are the subreddit equivalents?


Cool Nostr relay


In order to get rid of notes of my feed from people I already unfollowed I have to bloch them... #Nostr

See u in a couple months again to look if it has changed to the better

Peace 🤞


What you said was great, let me buy you a drink." This is not a zap, but it also involves money. Social interactions have never had strings attached.

The problem with Nostr is not this; Nostr needs more innovation. However, the basic social features of Nostr have already consumed most of the developers' efforts. Only after solving the basic social functions can there be room for innovation. I look forward to the upcoming changes.