All content on nostr is put on relays. Your nip-05 can list what relays you use and some relays run bots to crawl the network for kind 0 events which have your relay and profile information. 

Relays can use a syncing protocol between themselves. 

The traditional nostr model just reads from some set of relays. And you miss things.  There are inbox / outbox models where you find what relay a person is using and read from  / write to those relays. That’s where nostr is going. Primal and some others like nos use a bot and big caching server. Which is a kind of centralization but hasn’t risked the network the way Bluesky does it because it’s entirely open and you can easily opt out. Inbox / outbox plus caching is probably the best solution for performance and openness.  

 Yeah it’s the first example of algorithm choice in Nostr that seems to really work well. The pieces were all there but @miljan put it together well with this latest release.  

 @jb55 yeah but we still have a bunch of fixes we need to do to a bunch more work so notifications work better, search, versioning profiles and lists, etc…. We’re getting there and can do it. But we do need to do the work.  

 Es sumamente importante que tenemos una diversidad de apps y no concentración en una o un par de apps.  

 Well we need to update how we talk about Nostr. @Ben Arc’s redesign of Nostr.com is a great step forward. 

We need to be intentional about the narrative we put out about Nostr. Tech gets adopted because of social reasons not just which technology is better.  

 The one login many apps is the thing that makes peoples light bulb go off. @Linda has talked to hundreds of people about their social media use and nostr in customer development interviews. Her framing is based on what we found works.  

 Oh yeah sorry. I mangled my profile while working on my PR for pronouns ironically enough. I’ll fix it. 

 Yeah people and client developers can decide if they want to display it. Hell someone can even make a filter to auto mute people with pronouns if you’re offended easily.  

 apparently the courts have ruled tattoos are exempt so most gang members are getting very visible tattoos. Which of course reinforces their membership in the gang which is the opposite of the government’s intent. 

 New Zealand is a great place to live. It’s an incredibly fair, transparent, high trust society where most things work really well. Nature is spectacular and the quality of life is some of the best in the world. But it’s not perfect and there are things to make better. It’s also part of the larger world, so trends elsewhere happen here too. 

Come visit. Rent a camper van, travel around the country, see for yourself.  

 Working on that… 

https://github.com/planetary-social/nos/pull/1695

Seriously though, why do folks think free speech is only a thing for the kind of speech they like?  

 ok snowflake. 

 I think if we do a flexible system with free form we should also define in the nip the conventions that a bunch of nostr apps are using in order to make it easier for those who want to support new fields to know the naming. 

Like for the ethereum folks is it eth.address or ethaddress or eth_address? @Alex Gleason 🐍 ’s proposed nip should be popular because it’ll allow support for linking to every kind of crypto wallet address. ;-D 

 i’m not the person upset about what other people say.  

 I mean clients don’t have to let users set the field or display it. It’s entirely optional. And if you want to put random pronouns you can. :)  

 If you don’t want to be welcoming perhaps you can just not say anything. 

 Yes. @Linda does most of our UX research but other people on the team also do it. We’re constantly interviewing people and testing prototypes.  

 Quite litterally a boomer won over a gen x candidate. 

 If you follow a bridge account on bluesky you can then see that bluesky content on Nostr via BridgyFed and Mostr. 

 Nostr supports lists we could build starter pack functionality in to Nostr and nostr clients for onboarding pretty easily. It’s about UX and some tooling.  

 Well I think the desire to explain how stuff works without any context is really common unfortunately.  

 Wow thanks @Kennedy 🫎 

 I think folks mostly use blossom to self host a nostr media server. 

https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom 

 Sure but the history I learned is how all the colonies decided to united to form the United States but never a mention that almost half the colonies didn’t choose to join.  

 @chadlupkes interesting. What colony sent delegates but didn’t join? 

 I find it interesting the way the Bluesky users are super anti crypto but @Jay 🦋 who is CEO of Bluesky says that it IS a web 3 project. 

https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81 

 TikTok is much better if you use it in a country where they haven’t enabled the crazy home shopping network functionality. This is kind of like Amazon where they found a business model that makes so much money they can’t stop as it destroys the central value proposition of their platform. 

 Yeah it’s only US, UK, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy I think right now. 

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/tiktok-monetization-eligible-countries?lang=en 

 I mean if they block me then ideally others shouldn’t see my replies. Otherwise it’s mute not block. 

 Oh I’m interested in these client and nip ideas.  

 Trump won’t actually make any real changes to section 230 just like he won’t change or repeal the ACA. Too much of the system depends on the way 230 works now. If you change it so platforms can’t remove or prioritize the content as they see fit then either the platforms become unusable due to spam and scams.  

 This is a disaster for science and public health.  

 We’re trying to do something really different from Bluesky and that’s ok. We need to define and grow nostr for what it is and get out of the horse race.  

 Wait. For real?! 

 I think medium term we should be using the MLS groups that @JeffG is working on but so much of the group flow and ux app experience can be developed with nip-29 relays and then ported over to the better security without server dependency of nip-29 when it’s ready.  

 We include tools and instructions as part of the @nos.social onboarding. It works. We don’t have people get confused or ask questions about that. We’ve got other things to fix, but that one works. Please copy what we did.  Both the nip-05 server and client are open source.  

 Most people have always settled values, spaces, and vibes based on tribal community not objective evaluation of the underlying choices of the tribe. We’re social animals. The tech is not the most important thing in social software. The people are. So people follow the people they admire.  

 Here here.  

 When I first moved to Argentina in 2000 you could get an amazing dinner with wine and desert for 21 pesos. Today I don’t think there is anything you could get as the currency has been devalued 1200x.  

 Eventually we’ll have good tools build around what @JeffG is doing with MLS encrypted groups and WhiteNoise.  

I think there’s a huge opportunity to get progressives on Nostr because it’s the only social media protocol that can provide real end to end encryption and privacy. Bluesky, threads, the fediverse, farcaster and the others have all given up on the idea of privacy as being too hard. 

Everyone on the left is freaking out and searching for freedom tools. And not just posting. I just listed to a round table of digital activists talking about strategies for the next 4 years. They brought up the need for a financial system that can’t be shutdown. From the anti-cop city Black Lives Matter activists in Atlanta to abortion access mutual aid networks, they’re all facing being locked out of the baking system and looking for alternatives. Let’s get them the tools they want and need. The tech is for everyone.  

 I’m not sure if X is state owned or X has owned the state. Either way. Yes.  

 Why? That’s not even how nostr works. The zaps are sent to a wallet you choose in your profile. It’s not even a client thing. That’s kind of the point, nostr app devs don’t need to support zaps for users of those apps to be able to take advantage of zaps.  

 Welcome back to Nostr. I suggest you try @nos.social at least to use our directory because we highlight lefty and non-bitcoin nostr users.  

 Yep.  

 Of all the companies to be killed by AI I’m not sad about Chegg.  

 We don’t show users their follower count in nos.social because it’s not the right thing to prioritize. 

 The Māori mobilization around this treaty bill is massive. Not just in parliament but across the country there’s real grassroots mobilization.  

 Don’t let the loud trolls stop you. This is a good idea.