Nostr Web Client

Yeah I like this, and I agree that it will be a boon to content creators... once they learn what Nostr is!

You mentioned peertube, just keep in mind Mastodon as ~ 1 million DAU's... So PeerTube is going to be some smaller fraction of that.

Nostr has what... 6k DAU's, for the main "kind 1" functionality? We don't even know, lol... So do the math on what any sort of percentage of that will look like for any of the "other stuff" that's not just strictly "kind 1" microblogging.

So that's all to say: don't be frustrated, this is all just so early that you can't take any real lessons about whether something is "working" or not until we start to see DAU's closer to 5 figures, at least...

Globe99 5d ago 💬 2

So that being said, some concrete ideas / suggestions:

1. When I just logged on, I saw some "prawn" right on the front page... Would it be better perhaps to default to just videos from the user's social graph on Nostr, rather than just "global"?

2. Would a "quick and dirty" way of bootstrapping content be to just suck in a bunch of stuff from Internet Archive? You know, like what nostr:nprofile1qqs9e40cq5kx0y0ys70sundezdr96ugata07ps9tnyzfccryck3etgsaggnay does?

3. any chances of Smart TV integration (yeah I know, probably too early... but I doubt any of the Youtube competitors have even gotten that far yet...)

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Globe99 5d ago 💬 1

in fact, why doesn't nostr:nprofile1qqs9e40cq5kx0y0ys70sundezdr96ugata07ps9tnyzfccryck3etgsaggnay 's movies show up? I follow them, yet their content doesn't seem to appear in the "following" page of Plebs...?

Luxas 5d ago 💬 1

If they haven’t posted the video through Plebs, the videos they have published won’t show in the feed. This design choice was done for multiple reasons. The first being to ensure censorship-resistance through the uploading to Blossom hosts. The second for anti-spam mitigation. And third for how it tracks impressions and engagement in order to load the trending section and queued videos in “Up Next”. Think of Plebs as an outbox model. Otherwise, if we ingest all videos across Nostr, the app can’t guarantee if a video can be found online and might also pull in absolute slop.

Globe99 5d ago 💬 1

Yeah... don't think I agree with the design decision. I think this should just be a "YouTube"-like client for videos that get posted to Nostr. That's what I would personally find valuable.

Nostr users should understand how to filter based on their follows, WoT, by relays, etc.

Censorability, the use of blossom, etc the onus should be on the user posting the video to worry about that. Of course Plebs can make it easy for users to use blossom, but that shouldn't be a requirement to be on the site...

Luxas 5d ago

That’s ok. I didn’t build it to please everyone, I built it to be the most censorship-resistant and with higher quality, intentionally uploaded videos. Most people are absolutely unaware of how to manage things on their own. Most of us are outliers. Without the way Plebs was architected, there wouldn’t be any stop to someone flooding the feeds with junk. And even then, those protective measures are thin. If there’s any chance of a decentralized YouTube being used by normies, this was the best possible way for it to be built, imho.

Luxas 5d ago

In the app settings there is option at bottom to use WoT relays 🤙