Tons of great representation of Nostr in Amsterdam.

Thanks to nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va, nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s, nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc, nostr:npub1y67n93njx27lzmg9ua37ce7csvq4awvl6ynfqffzfssvdn7mq9vqlhq62h , nostr:npub1gypye9zdd4e283nlvnx8wukjrtmz3ushacq6ehwms0u4yu733axqxddfe5, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s, nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk and others who keep the purple torch of Nostr going

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

nostr:nevent1qqsrrhv572kpr89ssz9we06pkn09ljqtwr5g3y725fnqnfuvsaz8hmqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsygxnqajr23msx5malhhcz8paa2t0r70gfjpyncsqx56ztyj2nyyvlqpsgqqqqqqs2vgyqv

nostr:nevent1qqspg6jad2yz6vaeekszj3rgw4r40dwfydm64u4dnqcuza62ah5xalszyzyy7d9j2qcnj9h9pczn0n7g8cmhlxvr4s67c9t9jmt37mfta4dj2qcyqqqqqqgdk4y0j

nostr:note180hj6shrjpu7mwa5am6svm0h66ashnckkhnzt8khwckx5q9jm9rsvmfq78


Bluesky gets its first third-party mobile app with Graysky, launching later this month

Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for mobile users: a new app called Graysky. Though numerous Bluesky projects built on the company’s API are al...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/12/bluesky-gets-its-first-third-party-mobile-app-with-graysky-launching-later-this-month/


Bluesky hitting 1.5m users

(From nostr:npub1aljazgxlpnpfp7n5sunlk3dvfp72456x6nezjw4sd850q879rxqsthg9jp.bsky.social):
100k was May 31st
500k was August 6th (67 days)
1M was September 13th (38 days)
1.5M was October 12th (29 days)
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/93bcfbf64b0950b4736c1d4046686d2a49aeedf6003634261deff30ba7e1d28a.webp


Have you checked Mullvad.net and skiff.com?


It has never been a safe option to anything
nostr:note1t5r2wf7apz9kd3za3flj3eae3vxc4tdgmwvr24gs5jdwxcv25ugshqh577


Dark mode

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8LYCkMW4AEovXa.jpg


“Light reflects only from objects with an uneven distribution of electric charge, so the neutrality of Pines’ vibration rendered it perfectly invisible”

https://www.quantamagazine.org/invisible-electron-demon-discovered-in-odd-superconductor-20231009/


The 24h deadline from the EU to moderate the content started to expire…


X seems to have started to turn off content about Israel and Russia in Ukraine: “Content not available”

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1712148376886620163/pu/vid/avc1/720x826/9yh0Q0NHmVqArLgG.mp4?tag=12


Where have I heard that before 🤔

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1712036760153206784/pu/vid/avc1/954x720/J2wSF6eN3gTArbVq.mp4?tag=12


Yes. Evans lives in the UK (as far as I know) so he choosing Threads is really telling. Linkedin is no place for discoverability of your content.

Most of his following has come from Twitter and he was really active.


Early users with large accounts are leaving.  Evans was almost from the beginning on Twitter.

It’s dire when your choices are Threads (not accessible in the EU) or Linkedin.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8ImmvxXcAAqnzZ.jpg


ChatGPT: “For a lot of other people it looks a bit like those PCs ads of the late 1970s that promised you could use it to organise recipes or balance your cheque book - it can do anything, but what?”

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2023/10/5/unbundling-ai


An easy way to check nostr links and addresses if you ever happen to find yourself with neven1 or npub etc. and don’t know how to open it.
nostr:note1szjyvdzxe8myuxnpw6q8kme8neraqx7q958zjgg4t507yd6yelus6cjgaa


 nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft should be DVM this?

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

https://github.com/Pythagora-io/gpt-pilot


Bario salt found in the highlands of Borneo, from a salt spring that has been long a Sarawak tribal practice (Kelabit) in salt production. Back in the days it was used to preserve meat, cooking and also health preventive maintenance (tribal way). This salty spring water is evaporated, put into bamboos  pipes and burnt to harden it, and later wrapped in big leaves to keep it dry. It’s brownish, unbleached natural process of obtaining salt. This is a small tribe of slightly over a thousand Kelabit people still residing up on the highlands of Borneo.

https://m.primal.net/HNHP.jpg
https://labanglonghouse.com/bario-things-to-see/bario-salt-making/


Partly it's the business model (ad model), partly ethics and morals in the news aggregation, analysis and opinions.

But there's another aspect that's relevant which is information sourcing. Where the real news is and how they are told. I touch that as well.

Now, it's broken. Twitter used to be the place for everyone to share what they see if they find themselves in the middle of current events.

We don't have a place for that at the moment. The info sources are gone.


Here's the video version.

If you want to comment and contribute use the Airchat link: https://www.getairchat.com/petrikaj/thelatest?r=13f775ca-fa61-4b57-928c-f3edf9951f6b

https://www.petrikajander.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/broken_news.mp4


Global information sourcing is broken. News have been broken for a long time.

The alternatives are not in place yet. It's not a technical problem but a network effect tragedy.

https://getairchat.com/s/fgV3V5aO


Our global information sourcing is broken. Only second-hand dealers are amplified with broken megaphones.

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


There’s the Bridgy Fed project which has ActivityPub and Bluesky support with Nostr planned. This is designed very much as a ‘bridge my content / feed’ model.

https://fed.brid.gy/docs

On the other end of things, there’s the Mostr which bridges ActvityPub and Nostr and a newer Ditto/soapbox bridge that nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 is working on. Mostr is live now, I use it every day. Unfortunately it’s been defederated by a number of fediverse servers. I think a single automated gateway for all of nostr is unlikely to work well with the fediverse.

In nos.social you can enter mastodon style @rabble@mastodon.social style fediverse user names and it’ll pull their feed through mostr. That works well today, I use it all the time.

https://image.nostr.build/1591f0eadf3287efa582d0a24a3569f0466f56d09a5c34b48dadc4f6c6672724.png


OnlyFacts:
https://image.nostr.build/e196ac46839b9d1cebdcc8f3e3d1298e41e3f3288444ea9993259bd0aa07a76c.jpg


“Credible links are now photos. On the ground news outlets struggle to reach audiences without an expensive blue check mark. Xenophobic goons are boosted by the platform’s CEO. End times, folks.”

https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8BkSojWkAACC2b.jpg


Autumn jacket is something you wear twice and then it’s time to switch to the winter coat

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/F8AOCxKWIAAGlHZ.mp4


Interesting that some nostr clients had the same @ issue up until recently. At least we are e2e encrypted though… maybe metadata privacy is still better on activitypub? tradeoffs… nostr:note1z6vk9avf8cupy4za6sz9gndvl4mjglr0emm2q28e8nswryn482lq4pcpj6


The upside-down tree algo way more catchier than 🤓Merkle


bots are transforming into people while people are transforming into bots. that's the state of the world

https://video.nostr.build/7e3dc34e6b37c9f39ece5689a7e8b630b21f5ac84b0495286adfd4ad79c4a0e0.mp4


It used to be pv (pura vida) many nostr years ago


Without a “state”, relays will never know if they’re missing notes from their users.

By letting the client turn all their notes into a Merkle Trees, relays can realize when they’re missing notes from you.

This benefit is independent of syncing. It turns relays into librarians rather than having them just store stray notes. 📚

Syncing allows the relays to request the missing Merkle leaves/#Nostr notes, now that they know what notes are missing!


Who did the Nostr Design site? It’s great. We should make sure more people see it.

https://nostrdesign.org


It’s controversial if it’s already afternoon but you’re nice to people west of you 😁
nostr:note1puc0t8j5na62fpvp5eqdxxtkf20kk6e5wzw70z86m5ks4358s56qy74fk7


“This is enshittification: Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit.“

https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/


A new pipelines starts to leak. Maybe Russian tourists might have been in the area?

“The Balticconnector pipeline was opened in 2020. It has enabled Finland to reduce its dependency on imports from Russia, as has a new LNG terminal at Inkoo.”

https://yle.fi/a/74-20054118


#merch

🧢👕🎽

#damus https://image.nostr.build/74d4565d759819b39667967d21d8a7353a4c81a5aaf84823958a5aa4adde5df7.jpg


Skiff.com sounds way better than ProtonMail.

My ref in case it gives some perks: https://app.skiff.com/signup?mail&referral=petrik%40skiff.com


Announcing my first nostr client https://nosotros.app

Nosotros.app is a web-based client, the goal is to provide a great experience on mobile (PWA) and to be "almost" on pair with the native clients, but will work great on desktop too.

Nosotros doesn't need permission from anyone (not even from google or apple)

For now the client still readonly, but feel free to enter your npub and check your feed.

All feedback is appreciated (especially from nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk and nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac) and don't forget to add the page to your iOS/Android homescreen.

Pura Vida 🤙 https://video.nostr.build/056d04b0c7e33a6f5fb5767c3181409628a5bfa8da0cd37cfb958e067fc167b9.mov


Have you tried https://www.descript.com/ ?


Hiring: someone to edit podcast recordings for Nostrovia.


the sad state of nostr

we must do better than this or we're fucked

https://image.nostr.build/b939aa464bcd53152f8601691e33b889c3d8c9a402d03e4b56657ed8f2d79666.png


For memes, lols, shills, and trolls


A super app like WeChat exist with an app store like Apple except it's all decentralised and not big corp controlled.

You can use the same logins for all the apps. Try with http://primal.net or http://nostur.com

https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3236382/decentralised-social-media-super-app-elon-musks-dreams-already-exists-growing-interest-china


Years ago I saw some studies that said you needed to make $70k USD per year in order to be happy. That much money beyond that didn’t help make people happier. I didn’t actually read the study because it confirmed my biases and why would I want the detail. I think that’s why the idea has spread. The problem with this over simplification is that the cost of living varies a lot around the world.

There’s an annual study about how much money you need to be happy in each country. Again, I couldn’t find the study, but that doesn’t matter because it feels right. ;-D

Most of this map seems to make sense, although I wonder in the case of Iran if they’re getting numbers distorted by sanctions and international exchange rates. Anyway, I thought folks would find the map interesting. Is it true where you are? The Aotearoa New Zealand numbers feel about right to me. It’s expensive here, although folks making under $110k USD per year are much better off than similar people in the US because you get healthcare, better social services, education, mandated vacation, etc…

https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Price-of-Happiness-in-Every-Country.png


Many faces of social media. To share your ideas, news or hanging out:

 “people are having a hard time finding meaningful connections and conversation on the internet right now.”

https://qz.com/how-the-ex-twitter-founders-of-pebble-plan-to-compete-w-1850866565

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7u41U0XIAAeG-w.jpg


Perfect for a meme site


Snort and Iris

https://media.tenor.com/uF0eej0qEG4AAAAC/friends-bestfriends.gif


https://void.cat/d/T88weu5rDMp6HVQvS1zuLY.webp

Wow, Iris is Snort and Snort is Iris.

We're now working on the same codebase (from Snort) to avoid duplicate work and get more done. MIT license. Looking forward to bringing together the best of both clients.

If you prefer the old Iris, you can find it at https://old.iris.to.


To celebrate our node's 100th channel, we are giving anyone who boosts this note ⚡500 sats⚡

Our budget for this celebration is 100,000 #sats but that could be increased.

So get your thumbs (and wallets) ready to boost!
------------------------
And now a little about our #node nostr:npub1l0ans4w4psmcv6hsqjz2v3mxszhputlsfn4emkynv3jlwrfez59s35q0ug

Number of channels: 100
Current capacity: 7.54 #BTC
Terminal Web score: #623

We offer a 1 million sat capacity channel for free for 90 days.

We can also provide you with virtually any capacity for a whole year (for a fee). Get enough routing traffic on this channel and we'll renew it for one more year absolutely FREE!

We offer the lowest prices anywhere, check for yourself:

1m channel: FREE for 90 days
2m channel: 8k sats/year
3m channel: 9k sats/year
4m channel: 10k sats/year
5m channel: 15k sats/year
6m channel: 20k sats/year
7m channel: 25k sats/year
8m channel: 30k sats/year
9m channel: 35k sats/year
10m channel: 50k sats/year
Larger than 10m channel? Please DM us.

Compare our prices to places like LNBig and Coinconcept, among others, who only provide channels for 30 days.

We're here for you so DM us at anytime. Or if you prefer, you can find us on the Telegram app (user: @LNServer)

https://image.nostr.build/6c71946d72d1e32ba87869a5c403656479652481cfbf1fe7fb882ea766afb38a.jpg


Just my favourite and trying to raise awareness of it since it's really good.
 nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe is the founder.


Yesterday a work colleague said ‘the real inflation problem is from greedy corporations raising prices’…
I said all of them, all around the world, at the same time??..


Anything imported from the existing ad-based business model (including page views as already mentioned).


The link preview removal makes the images the new click bait tabloids on X.

Less link clicks since you cannot evaluate the quality and authenticity of the link source from pics alone.

X is the meme platform.


Done! Might have missed some of the features.


No, people started to notice it with their likes and that’s why the tracker was also started.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_71d3e5da609e0111c015d4969b545977a2b88b46f351d964.webp


When the past changes so quickly you cannot keep up it’s easier to try to hide it.

Musk seems to manipulate his tweet likes: https://hoblin.eu.ngrok.io/pekka

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7qtOhvXIAA56_b.jpg


The list seems missing http://nostur.com/


Interesting to see who backs down: Meta, the EU or the users

Who pays over 10€/month for accessing FB/Insta per month 😂
nostr:note1e8fwactquda8pnf8dj4wrcv3q4nhtwfp5uk0jugtcmtrt6enhe8q955yf9


If startpage.com, Duckduckgo or similar has not been your default search engine for years if not over a decade 🤷♂

Yet, the behaviour from Google is “do pure evil”


🤯

E.g. Google search “children’s clothing.” —> “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” in their system to generate more ad revenues for them and results you did not ask. No opt out possible.

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/


This level of transparency may not have the effect you want it to have.

Not hard to make a bot that signals every mute and block.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7gD7gjWEAEDzUD.jpg


This happens and not only for audiobooks

https://xkcd.com/2834/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7f87jiX0AAmD5F.png


"Musk’s claims that monkeys who died during trials at the company were terminally ill and did not die as a result of Neuralink implants. They claim, based on veterinary records, that complications with the implant procedures led to their deaths."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-pcrm-neuralink-monkey-deaths/


The Vast Majority of NFTs are Worthless

Of the 73,257 NFT collections we identified…We would estimate that 95% to include over 23 million people who’s investments are now worthless.

https://dappgambl.com/nfts/dead-nfts/


Let’s wait another hundred years and try reductionism again

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7dJRejWEAEkDnr.jpg


How will AI change the way we do business? Why reading and posting business posts becomes a waste of time and effort. How do we reinvent our creativity?

Here's the native format if you prefer to read it or comment: https://www.getairchat.com/petrikaj/thelatest?r=3d012c33-8ba5-478d-a9df-6adcae911d24

https://www.petrikajander.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/ai-future_final.mp4


Speaking and listening in any language are coming so fast this year

This came out in the spring:

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1660696044731260928/vid/720x1556/BtTIb2a_fmDcOFpz.mp4

Now, this is coming out soon:

https://video.nostr.build/f8b2029b971a3131219d69750c0c402cd81ef4896fd8544d6f474499ab7c7121.mp4
nostr:note1x2rtgwa0zvn0felmevteenzzst9y5fcuuqrn59tjvqnd253aatwqh754w3


Which AI service you used?


If everybody waits nothing else takes off.

Maybe multi-posting strategy is the best bet at this point.
Here are some alt. networks to consider:
- Mastodon
- Bluesky
- Nostr (e.g. clients: Amethyst (Android), Nostur (Apple) or Primal (web))
- Pebble
- Warcaster
- Airchat https://twitter.com/johnpaul_newman/status/1708813878958620916


Twitter’s always had lots of drama, but the last couple of days there’s been a back and forth between Dr Yoel Roth, ex head of twitter trust and safety, and Linda Yaccarino the new CEO of X ne twitter.

First off Yoel wrote an op-ed in the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html

It’s good, it talks about the way that targeted attacks and harassment are used to silence and limit speech.

Then a couple days ago Dr Roth and Yaccarino had back to back interviews at the code conference.

Yoel’s Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9XoUUYeZD8

Linda’s Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYymRU-bfpQ

Both are worth listening to if you want to understand the debates about where Twitter is today. There’s also a funny bit where Linda tries to reference X by showing her phone, but it doesn’t have x on it, only instagram, facebook, blind. The latter is a back channel gossip app for employees at companies.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F7J8jnrbsAATbb_?format=jpg&name=small


What are the odds?

“Deutsch worked with DeWitt in the 1970s, and in 1977, he met Everett at a conference organized by DeWitt — the only time Everett ever presented his ideas to a large audience.”

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-worlds-theory/


Canada is transitioning into complete totalitarian mode.
https://i.nostrimg.com/78c87f757480e01f697388129555fbd615653cf4d4543c17d3d643cd95455e56/file.jpg
https://i.nostrimg.com/b7484e56d27c7edabc1e80f70f2410897154a067211cda5efa4ff83580d2a7e8/file.jpg


Media files are still a pain point on Nostr.

This might ease it soon.

https://getairchat.com/s/ie81T0jP

https://video.nostr.build/f01a9a008028903a2482bd2db9b172ff7264cb16721bfcc652f656d6461833b8.mp4


zaps and merch sales have covered half of damus payroll this month. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who keeps zapping and supporting Damus when they can 🫂

I have a new respect for people trying to bootstrap companies. Hopefully I can keep building freedom tech as long as possible… but it ain’t a walk in the park 😅


You can change it on Settings. Sats is not a common term for people outside of the BTC world.


Would you prefer to live in any other time in history?
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1705125300156170240/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/jjub4I0n-UKVyWUL.mp4?tag=12


Nostur by far

It gets daily updates and it’s even better than Twitter on many things so hard to find faults.


What prism? Automated revenue shares.

https://dergigi.com/2023/03/12/lightning-prisms/


#Nostur 1.7.0 is now on the App Store

New since 1.6.0:
- Added separate notification tabs for reposts and new followers
- Multi account improvements: quick follow without switching account
- 50+ performance improvements and bug fixes

https://nostur.com/screenshots/nostur-release.jpg

https://nostur.com/screenshots/c/fullscreen-nostur.jpg

App Store: https://nostur.com/appstore
Non-App Store: (with zaps on posts): https://nostur.com/Nostur-1.7.0.dmg
Source code: https://nostur.com/source


Any React developers interested in helping my team and nostr:npub1u9e887ad8pl49cxgzqkuljxcxy89dtac7jkyuajnukxg6hu2hufqdjdsp7 with the Decentralized GitHub frontend?

We’ve made a lot of progress already. Let’s assemble an amazing team!

We’ll give you a big cut of the bounty.💰


Get your backups from your X soon

https://i.nostrimg.com/e77ef2e1ff9991987757c9177ee99ba6918c5ee3361d6fb2cc9650c1cb95454d/file.jpeg


Non-nostr sounds complicated, delicate and moody.

Thankful for nostr 😌 nostr:note19kk08uleyd0rjfp80r00ncz4ggfk92caz0a77t4urfqley70f3pqfguvy7


Xbox Cloud Gaming is coming to Meta Quest 3 in December

The next-generation of Meta Quest hardware is here, and Meta announced a bunch of software news alongside the Quest 3 VR headset hardware reveal. One such announcement was the debut of Microsoft’s Xbo...

https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/xbox-cloud-gaming-is-coming-to-meta-quest-3-in-december/


There were other platforms already at the time like Facebook.

Why not pick the 13th of Oct, 1994 when Netscape announced their browser and the Internet officially got started.

Hard to argue you were messaging publicly before that unless with some BBS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape_Navigator


And before you push EXIT consider running this to get the full reso pics and for your personal archive the full links etc.

https://github.com/timhutton/twitter-archive-parser

nostr:note1f4dfraf3ssqywlyyc5352gsdutdgv7mrq89dd57law0s4lpsg7gscgzrn6


I have been wondering how to do this for months.

Hosting on Wordpress the images (with own domain) sound like the most feasible solution but it's a bit hassle to do the uploading and get the link for every post.

Would serving files from personal iCloud, Google Drive etc. be an option, too?


If Github was Netflix, and you are fed only the hook.

Gotta wait for the latest commit or release if you're unlucky…

nostr:note132shvsp5t5tp3aev57n4n26cpnf3u9dqth4e2e7ukhk73hwnwxgqygxjqs


SimpleX Chat v5.3 is released – with new desktop app and local file encryption!

Also in this release:
- group improvements.
- simplified incognito mode
- better app responsiveness, stability and 40% reduced memory usage.
- new privacy settings: show last messages & save draft.

Added 6 new interface languages thanks to our users - Arabic, Bulgarian, Finnish, Hebrew, Thai and Ukrainian.

Read more: https://simplex.chat/blog/20230925-simplex-chat-v5-3-desktop-app-local-file-encryption-directory-service.html

Downloads page: https://simplex.chat/downloads/

#privacy #security #messenger


New Snort release v0.1.15

## Added
- User status on profile pages (Music only [NIP-38])
- Following mark on avatars, if you follow the pubkey you will see a green tick on their avatar
- Pin encryption, encrypted private key storage for nsec login
- Pubkey (readonly) logins hide buttons which cannot be used (reactions, reply, save profiles, dms etc)
- Muted words feature (phase 1)
- NIP-28 public chats

## Changed
- Styles changes for Content warnings
- Live stream embed styles
- Cashu token embed styles
- Snort Deck thread navigation in modal from timeline
- PoW miner moved to WASM module for faster hashing

## Fixed
- Profile link to dms
- Long form content loading and replies
- Search function restored

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=social.snort.app


Has anyone found a good cross-poster?

Ideally, would be to use Nostr as the base but could also be X, Bluesky or something else, and then the note is posted to other platforms.

Found these:

https://github.com/pojntfx/skytheon

https://github.com/eramdam/tweet-forker/tree/main

https://github.com/GanWeaving/social-cross-post

The reality is that network effect dictates what you need to use and we are in the fragmentation era. So, either you follow your networks or you’re invisible despite your preferences and favourites.


Here's a screen capture and what happens:

1) Clicked the author and it opens in a new tab
2) Copied the post text and pasted it into a reply to show that it’s pure text
3) Copied the note source and pasted it to show what it has in it.

That’s all 🤙

https://video.nostr.build/ddc96efc7bf719baafc7600fe438de7d55b10e37ff7cd46dd3ff7423bc664d8d.mp4


That’s how it looks like on Nostur. It’s really a magical client.


This level of execution beauty was never achieved on Twitter.

The note is not an image but a genuine quote where the author is a clickable link and you can copy the note text with a single click.

#nostr

https://i.nostrimg.com/1aa2f67ce7a38d7bc55a4629f9f1412d8743291274c51b0053ea156edb266312/file.jpeg


It did not open on my MacOS


Seems so!


Lots of classics available now on audiobook format for free.

You can listen on Spotify, Google or Apple podcasts

https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/index.html#Listen


Today, I added two interesting features to my backup service.

Firstly, it now runs in quick backup mode by default, allowing you to complete backups in just minutes.

Secondly, all backups will also stored in the PWA's new built-in local database, it effortlessly handled my 200MB backup file. 😂

https://nostrsync.live
https://image.nostr.build/8c9364a17c8068714a44fdbe73fcc8e00ad0e77a28625d14de2bfa7b8dbafe68.jpg


I ran it on Brave (MacOS) and DuckDuckGo on iPad and did not get the backup file nor is there anything on the BU Database.

I just put the npub and clicked the Backup & Broadcast.


It’s Sunday, and you know what that means! Time to recap the week with #NostrTechWeekly by nostr:npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2

https://habla.news/nostreport/Nostr-Tech-Weekly-2023-09-24


“Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you're really buying into someone else's system of values, rules and rewards.” — Bill Watterson (of Calvin and Hobbes fame)


nostr:nevent1qqsvj0zwxlns7xeh6zff6rneyh4s7au53swzj739n28zelsn3evtfqsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekk7mf0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyee06g4903

I'll add to this: stop trying to fix other people's clients on your code. That is the road to protocol bloat and death. Don't trade away the simplicity of Nostr in order to get 0.001% better UX for your users or we will all lose in the end.

If you see that some client is doing something wrong, try talking to them, or bring it up on Nostr, that benefits everybody.


Nothing a little threat of “only paid users” change cannot make to look for alts 😁


We are beginning the development process for transmitting Nostr events in a peer-to-peer fashion, away from relays. This will start with Gift-wrapped DMs, Private Attachments, Private zaps, Private Text Notes, and Private Reactions; and will be the preferred transmission choice if both users are online, falling back to relays when they are not. Our Push Notification system already transmitted over 500,000 GiftWrapped Nostr events that relays will never see. With a full P2P this will get even better and will open the doors for voice and video calls directly inside Amethyst. Side-stepping relays won't be easy or quick. And I am sure we will get strong pushback from relay operators. But we will get there. And while this might start as an Amethyst feature, it will be a NIP and other clients will be able to join the privacy train.

Nostr is just starting.


"The Society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools." -Thucydides


It is extremely important that a platform exists that allows anybody to express any idea they wish to, in order to preserve free speech. And for anybody who wants to listen to be able to plug into that content and listen.

It is not necessary that anybody actually do so.  Plenty of people will never say a word.  In fact, that is also true of twitter.  Many people watch twitter and never post.  We cannot count how many people are watching nostr but have never even generated a keypair.

IMHO nostr adoption isn't important.  I don't care how many people come to nostr.  If people want to join bluesky or post or mastodon, they are free.  I don't care.

But I do care about nostr awareness. I want the world to know that there is a place that supports free speech, puts users in control, is open sourced and has many implementations, and is difficult to shut down due to being decentralized. Whether people come over here is up to them.


If you haven’t tested Nostur on Apple devices now is the perfect time 🤙 nostr:note1jg88p29nv5q42qv7lg7pr5t96d6u89za0lkcp8ufv9a09xcejr5qsdql38


Today I saw #[0] turn separate posts from a thread into an article and then #[1] turned the article back into separate posts using highlights


Some Nostur database stats:

Nostur stores every item you see and then removes everything you don't need after a few days, while keeping your own posts, bookmarks etc. Contact info is kept forever (for now)

This is after 9 months of usage:

On Desktop:

Contacts: 38.489
Events (all kinds): 76.388

Events by kind:
Contact lists: 2.917
Articles and badges: 1.232
Posts: 21.856
Reactions: 23.991
Reposts: 4.425
Zaps: 20.147

Size on disk: 290 MB

On my phone:

Contacts: 37.051
Events (all kinds): 68.414

Events by kind:
Contact lists: 1644
Articles and badges: 1.029
Posts: 26.957
Reactions: 25.126
Reposts: 4.145
Zaps: 7.785

Size on disk: 198 MB


Looks like Elon’s comment that he might start charging everybody to use X has caused a flood of new signups for bluesky. Have we seen something similar for Nostr?

https://mashable.com/article/bluesky-record-new-signups-after-musk-says-charge-x-twitter-users-fee


The Free Software Foundation Europe set up a website to help move governments from proprietary social media to the #fediverse.

Excellent idea!

https://fedigov.eu


BREAKING: Over 1,000 people have signed up for #Nostrasia!

join us virtually or in person here: https://tally.so/r/meM1yx https://i.nostr.build/Plv6.jpg


Just finished nostrdb profile searching. Now @‘s will always be able to find users if it has seen it at some point in the past. Damus is about to get way better at tagging and user search. This doesn’t rely on any custom search relay, its all done locally. nostr:note1xexrxswrwczelxy8qyhktvlh90hk43mvklv6g3cnehugq39fxmkqtsc4vn


This chapter is on an interview with Steve Wozniak (unfiltered) co founder of Apple - from the book 'Founders at Work' by Jessica Livingston. This one is so good it would do absolutely no justice if i sum it up. I'll share some snapshots of it.

To set the base, Apple was founded on April 1, 1976 and went public in 1980. Steve Wozniak was working with HP even when they were selling Apple 1 in thousands. He pitched to HP but was declined. Irony that HP eventually spin off the test measurement instrument, and retained its identity as personal PC and became Apple's biggest competitor.

This whole interview is so precious, most of it just talks about his passion in building things from the time he was in highschool. Also there was no falling out or drama with Steve Jobs, they argued about modular system vs 1 box solution and Wozniak won the argument. He didn't leave Apple or anything like that. He did mention how media would spin everything

https://m.primal.net/HLeQ.jpg
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https://m.primal.net/HLeU.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HLeV.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HLeW.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HLeX.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HLeY.jpg
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https://m.primal.net/HLea.jpg
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Nah - I'm done with those. Did them for so many years but you can read the audio clips as transcript 😁

The app is also available now on Android and iOS. No waitlist anymore and the clips work on browser, too.


If errors are not allowed we cannot learn and progress.

Knowledge is the most important resource. If you ban innovation you stop progress because the learning stops.

You cannot dictate innovation or buy it with money.

Had some live-TV fun on regular TV last night.

#AI #airegulation #innovation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUDWMpX-MBc


What happens to the founders that work with Elon Musk?

Walter Isaacson’s new book about Elon Musk just came out. I finished it today and here’s a thread about things I picked up from it:

https://www.getairchat.com/petrikaj/elonmusk?r=70d83da6-157a-4c3d-bc8d-18297284333b


Damus Code, your own GitHub for your company.

I have much bigger ambitions for Damus than just iOS. I want damus to be the best brand in nostr, with the best tech and tools. I don’t want to put everything into a single app, which is why I’m trying to make native client dev as simple as possible by extracting the complexity into nostrdb. It should be much easier to spin up specific native microapps for different use cases.

Micro apps is just the Unix philosophy, and Damus will embrace this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy


Nostr-based Quora is here!

https://swarmstr.com/e/nevent1qqsyuhzx9h787y6kxc5m7qehqdzhrwnx0ztzcua9e9s878ug73hf6uqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdulvpefd


authentic engagement vs needing to feel like you need to game an algorithm to be heard nostr:note1ynr55g930lp4acaxy5fxqj232xmvmdfepmvx7hjgkzzfle0fc4yqg3ylgd


Yesterday I published the nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 Figma file to the Figma community. If you would like to contribute to Damus design or start a new iOS client, feel free to grab a copy of this file and start from it. Any questions or suggestions I am pretty open. 🙏🏼
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 nostr:npub1jutptdc2m8kgjmudtws095qk2tcale0eemvp4j2xnjnl4nh6669slrf04x nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac nostr:npub10000003zmk89narqpczy4ff6rnuht2wu05na7kpnh3mak7z2tqzsv8vwqk

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1283642611478143774/Damus-iOS


I was able to use the mail app on my flight the entire way. Can’t wait to have nostrdb working so you can do everything offline: read and reply to threads, archive and organize dms. So many things possible now with a local db.


Fusion already mentioned this: https://github.com/WeblateOrg/weblate


We need to make the new user experience on nostr better. Bluesky’s topped a million users but our growth with nostr hasn’t kept up. I’m very pumped on Nostr and think we’ve got a better model for building social apps, but there are problems.

Wallets and keys are hard to understand, browser extensions make sense if you’re coming from the crypto world, but most people don’t get them. We need a login with nostr that works like / with oauth. We need better contact discovery, content warnings, apps to have by default anti-spam filters, etc… Unsexy stuff where we go from it works for me to it works for non-technical users.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats


Looking at some of the stats and comparing Bluesky to Nostr…. Norhing profound, but kind of useful to remind ourselves of scale.

Using data from:
* Nostr: https://stats.nostr.band/
* bluesky: https://bsky.jazco.dev/
* fediverse: https://fediverse.observer/stats

Avg Daily Posts:
* Nostr: 80k
* Bluesky: 520k
* Fediverse 36m

Average Daily Reactions / Likes:
* Nostr: 50k
* Bluesky: 2m
* Fediverse: ?


damus relay now allows tor connections, i only had that enabled because at the time I didn’t have any ratelimiting scripts. enjoy 🤙 nostr:note1tm7gq4ct3jw4rlv83pe2ftz9hmgcn390us5zfcqdnuuashcmxjrqpgak07


Damus uses neural cores to detect the language of a post in realtime to choose the appropriate language to translate. This happens on device and doesn’t need cloud services 🤓. Lots of opportunities to explore in Damus with privacy-preserving edge AI like this, and neural chips are only going to get better.


I never realized that each MrBeast video is equal to one Super Bowl 🤯

The dude puts up 52 Super Bowls every year.


Just in from Twitch. Quote:
"New EU regulations, colloquially called DAC7, require certain digital platforms, including Twitch, to report information to the EU regarding earnings generated by monetizing users. At Twitch, this concerns all monetizing streamers (Affiliates and Partners) who reside in the EU"

#nostr and #ZapStream fix this.


A massive 8 new languages supported for nostr:npub1eaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsqarcgz !!

https://void.cat/d/LNmm6BqdtyTiDf6RiSsR9p.webp

- Bengali
- Bulgarian
- Chinese
- Chinese Traditional
- Finnish
- French
- Portuguese Brazil
- Russian

https://crowdin.com/project/zapstream

Zap some of the translators!
nostr:naddr1qqt85cts9eehgun9v9kjqarjv9h8xmrpw3hhyuczyp3lucccm3v9s087z6qslpkap8schltk427zfgqgrn3g2menq5zw6qcyqqq82vqc59mlg


A non-coder should create the Nostr Client Awards. Get an independent committee of reviewers, put some rules, create some cool categories, raise a prize, and rank us all.

Make us compete. Let's go.

GM.


Postmarks is a decentralised self-hosted Fediverse successor to the old del.ici.us bookmarking service

https://void.cat/d/LZNGfKoYJBh5j4sn3ShQ2i.webp

The successor to Web 2.0 bookmarking site del.icio.us is here, but this time, it’s built for the open web and the Fediverse — the decentralised collection of social networks that includes the Twitter/X competitor Mastodon and others. Portland-area web developer Casey Kolderup has launched Postmarks, a Fediverse-enabled social bookmarking service that offers a web interface for saving your favourite links and annotating them, similar to bookmarking sites of years past.

But this time, your links and notes can be shared with your followers both on Postmarks itself, as well as other federated social networks like Mastodon or anything else on the Fediverse.

It is interesting to see that the ActivityPub protocol is not just used for microblogging (like Mastodon and similar) but also for social link aggregation (Lemmy, etc), book reading (Bookwyrm), blog hosting (Shuttlecraft), and now also bookmarking.

This is different from social link aggregation where a link is posted and has related discussion threads as well as voting, and is intended for communal use. Postmarks is more a simple link, with description, tags, and optional association to other tags. Any other Fediverse user is then able to follow your Postmarks feed, or searches on the tags should show up as hashtag results. So, the focus here would be more your personal collection of bookmarks.

It is still early days for this service and I'd hope it gets the facility to import bookmarks from a browser (if that is not yet a feature).

See https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/with-postmarks-social-bookmarking-is-back-but-this-time-its-built-on-the-fediverse/

#technology #Fediverse #bookmarks #Postmarks #opensource


For the last months, getairchat.com has been my favourite.

Twitter still is the place to go for the latest updates on any topic.


only took a couple months 😑 but finally got profiles working in nostrdb.

Damus now queries the local relay directly whenever it needs profile info. Its always up to date, has access to every profile its ever seen in realtime, and is as fast as accessing the profile from memory. No longer do clients need to have a separate in-memory cache for profiles, which *drastically* simplifies client code.

The old profile database is buggy and is causing crashes on the current TestFlight build, so this will fix that and make profile loading a lot faster.

Just a small update but a huge technical milestone for nostrdb. Again, thanks for your patience 😁. Damus is evolving into something new 👀


I guess it could be a git repo?


Just use your customestring then or make an alt.name string for the resource pool.


It doesn’t need to be one option only for source files.

Could be multiple alternatives to choose from in the original word based on the use case. That’s the dev’s choice or they could request a new string (translation).

Translations reflect that then based on the meta-description.

E.g. mute (as in silence) might be for a mic action, hide (as in don’t show) for user account or note etc.


What if Nostr apps would have an open source resource library for all app strings?

Nostr would be instantly available on most if not all languages.
No need to do duplicate work for each new client and app.
Unified terminology in translations would help in adaption.
New strings would need to be translated only once.

There are open source translation tools like Weblate etc. but where are the libraries?

After all, mute is still mute, open is still open etc. The basic app strings are always the same 😁


Congrats 🚀


Website is complete and H.O.R.N.E.T.S. #Nostr Relay is in beta!

https://hornetstorage.com/


We'll have Nostr panel here at nostr:npub1yul83qxn35u607er3m7039t6rddj06qezfagfqlfw4qk5z5slrfqu8ncdu  Baltic Honey Badger #bh2023!

nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4, nostr:npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk, nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424, nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc and me will be discussing this amazing protocol, join us at Cypherpunk stage!

https://void.cat/d/MehXh95PBMdPujhaUrsJjh.webp

https://void.cat/d/B85hB6w3juqMUDAycVzDKH.webp

https://void.cat/d/EZ1P1oe4WcWZRTVfphzbT3.webp


closed source custodial nostr clients are a threat to users and during these early days of nostr adoption represent an existential threat to nostr

if a non sovereign client or tool accrues significant market share they could potentially use their control over users to influence the greater network or bifuricate it

nostr is permissionless and we cannot stop people from shipping whatever tools they want but it highlights the importance of rapid development of freedom focused foss clients and tools

this is my main focus, supporting the individuals building out the freedom tech tools we sorely need, momentum is strong, incredibly hopeful, we must continue to push forward 🫡

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


How would Nostr do in this comparison chart?

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/1e48ae32dbe2c90a021351b16912657c334e1726a3efee444ac83d1f50602117.jpg


Snort v0.1.13 has been released!

This release includes the new Snort V2 design, as well as a new secure key storage for Android.

This greatly improves key storage by using Androids encrypted storage system, if you're on android and you use the PWA currently, i highly recommend switching to the android app!

Release notes:
# Added
- Snort V2 Design
- NIP-24 Encrypted secret chats (nsec login only)
- NIP-13 Proof of Work (POW)
- NIP-31 Alt tag spec for unknown event kinds
- Render mentioned zap goals (Kind 9041)
- Embed fonts in src (No more google fonts requests)
- Native key storage for Android app (`Nip7os` interface)
- Swahili translations
- Thai translations

# Changed
- PWA pre-cache setup (Faster PWA loading)
- Show note creator button on profile pages

# Fixed
- Umlauts in urls
- Reject events which don't match request filter

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=social.snort.app


Things that we mostly can't fix, but that maybe could have been done better if they were here from the beginning -- or something like that.

- The `NOTICE` message would have been better if it had structure like `OK` messages have. That would have allowed a more direct communication between relays and users, instead of relays being inside a client black box.
- Choosing secp256k1 felt cool and maybe it still feels cool because it is the Bitcoin curve, but since many people have pointed out that other curves and algorithms are much faster maybe picking those would have been better.
- Writing a spec for direct messages and implementing them was bad. In my defense, it was an attempt to [please the public](https://t.me/nostr_protocol/307), but still I should have not have done that, or thought more about it before doing it.
- Thinking that kind 1 should be used for all the things "text" just restricted the ability of clients to do different interfaces. If we had different kinds for replies, quotes, comments and "root" posts from the beginning that would have been better.
- For a long time I didn't realize Nostr wasn't useful just for "social networking" things. I wonder what else could have been better designed in the relay-client interface if the needs of non-social-networking apps were kept in mind.
- The querying system is sometimes too generic, it could have been better if it was more restrictive, but more complete. For example: allowing generic querying over tags is weird, can lead to O(n²) issues in some cases and relays are left to fend for themselves -- on the other hand we can't query for the absence of some tags. But I don't know how any of these things could have been better even today, so maybe it wasn't so bad.
- Making the events be JSON: sometimes I think this was a bad idea and a binary format would have been better, but most of the times I think Nostr wouldn't have become any popular at all if this was the case -- also binary is slower than JSON in JavaScript, so I guess this wasn't a completely bad choice. Perhaps if something like [NSON](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/515) had been adopted from the start, though, that would have been better for everybody.

When I decided to write this I had one item in mind, but when I started I forgot what that was. I'll add it here back when I remember.


This is interesting, just needs a little more prettiness.


This isn’t for nostr folks, but I wanted to cross post / share it here because I think people might find it interesting.

This is a proposal for the future of Bluesky and the at_protocol that would accommodate both the desires of the community of early adopters and also the vision of an open social media protocol.

**Building a Community**

Bluesky has successfully built a thriving community on its initial test server. With its own norms, culture, and even inside jokes like the sexy alf, it's more than just a test server. It's become a significant entity in its own right, with a community of 600,000 users.

**Facing Conflict**

However, it's not all been sunshine and rainbows. The server has become a site of considerable conflict. There's a fundamental gap between those who advocate for an open, decentralized protocol and others who desire a more actively managed social space. The vision that drives the project and the evolving values of its growing community have created tensions within the Bluesky team.

**Addressing the Challenge**

Both a federated social media protocol and a commitment to actively policing against bigotry have merit. But these two goals aren't entirely compatible. So, what if they didn't have to be? What if the current Bluesky server continued as a standalone entity, running updated Bluesky software, while the company simultaneously launched the atproto network using the same software?

**Accommodating Users**

Current users could choose to stay on the existing server or utilize key migration technology to move their accounts to another server that's part of the open network. They could maintain the same identity on both platforms. This approach would allow users to choose their preferred experience.

**Managing Speech**

In a fully open, decentralized social media protocol, managing speech in the way that many early Bluesky adopters envision may not be feasible. You can block and mute objectionable users and content, but you can't prevent them from using the protocol altogether. This highlights the inherent tension between the preferences of early Bluesky adopters and the open-source, open-protocol nature of what the company is building.

**Examples of Exclusivity**

Examples like the fediverse servers, some of which either don't federate at all or only have very limited federation (like certain Japanese servers), demonstrate that exclusivity is an option. The current server with its 600,000 users could remain its own entity.

**Empowering Users**

What if we transferred management of the current server to its users? Bluesky the company would continue to develop software for both this specific instance and the larger network. Users could vote and select a management team for technical and trust/safety issues. Digital democracy tools like loomio could be adapted to enable this community governance model, giving users a direct voice in shaping their digital space.

**Funding the Transition**

Running Bluesky costs money, so funding will be essential. Possible sources include Bluesky LLC, crowdfunding efforts, or donations from foundations. Once established, the community could explore sustainable business models to continue funding trust and safety efforts.

**Conclusion**

This approach aligns with Bluesky's original vision of empowering people to run their own communities. By handing over the current server to its users and developing software for both the standalone instance and the larger network, we can support diverse digital spaces that accommodate the needs of all users, while upholding the vision of an open social media protocol.


Big plans for nostrscripts. Roughing out the details with nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj but i think the first iteration will support custom feed filtering scripts.


We are redesigning the Primal phone feed. One of our goals is to optimize for information density. The current design is probably too sparse. Here are some concepts we are throwing around. Thoughts?

https://media.primal.net/uploads/a/fa/4e/afa4ed46479f2213901558216879cd7708b6943f9d1e78ee47a03d80a8b0ddbf.png


OpenSats is 100% pass through, we do not take a cut of donations, period. This is incredibly rare in the non profit world. Our nine person board has not and will not be paid a single sat.

Gigi is paid to run the org full time. The money for that was paid by a single donation for that specific stated purpose. He has rebuilt our processes from the ground up and made everything much more efficient.

All funds are provided to open source projects that apply and are approved by board vote. The board is intentionally nine people to reduce the impact of individual bias. We operate on simple majority. If there is a conflict of interest between a board member and a project they are expected to recuse themselves.

We will be releasing transparency reports and updates as funds are allocated. Understandable that some are frustrated with the speed of deployment but we are moving as fast as responsibly possible. Over the last two months we have announced nearly thirty grants. More will be announced soon.

Are you an open source contributor? Apply Here: https://opensats.org/apply


NIP-39: External Identities in Profiles

Nostr protocol users may have other online identities such as usernames, profile pages, keypairs etc. they control and they may want to include this data in their profile metadata so clients can parse, validate and display this information.

This is the only true verification that we have.

IMO, more Nostr clients should support displaying NIP-39 on profile pages. At this time I believe it's only Amethyst that supports this NIP. This NIP is almost 2 months old and hasn't gained a lot of support. Why? Which other services should be added to this NIP? Keybase seems like an easy addition. Others?


You can do that using my service. It will fetch all your events from 150 relays, make a backup file and also broadcast those events across 150 relays with just your public key.

https://nostryfied.online/


I need one to get started:

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What worries me the most at the moment is that the next wave of people  prefer more convenience and are not too willing to learn new things or pay for them.

Video hosting becomes expensive. The data needs to go somewhere. The big players will step in and introduce the same old models again: we host your media and it’s all free for you. And the rest will follow from there. Data ownership and security do not worry many people.

Email is not decentralised anymore. It just does not get deliver unless you’re part of the big players. The protocol does not matter if the monetisation model overdrives it.

Nostr needs to become so easy and convenient for the masses with the model that is decentralised and in line with the OG vision of censorship resistance etc. that is preferred over the old models that will be introduced soon (if enough people join and nostr becomes a viable alternative).