I wanna scroll through my notes from earlier times like last month but it appears there's a limit to how far I can go. What is this dependent on?
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It seems like relays delete old notes to save on storage. Paid relays can store the whole history
This seems like a pretty profound weakness in #nostr. Social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, etc. gained massive adoption because they were “free” to use. If your content gets deleted after a month because you aren’t paying money, I think this will definitely prevent mass adoption. Am I wrong? #asknostr #grownostr
I like the fact that my notes eventually expire.
it is a feature.
Everyone used to complain that social media keeps everything forever and builds a profile on you. Atleast your pseudonym is ephemeral here...
FB and Twitter were given to you for free by the national security/intelligence state. You were the product from the beginning.
If you want to be the customer instead of the product, you gotta pay.
That said, most people are ok being the product.
Well said. I agree 100%.
But it seems to confirm what I’m saying. If most people are ok being the product, then why would #nostr see mass adoption?
I don’t know that it will. But if it does, I suspect it would be because people can interact with the protocol without even choosing a keypair.
What do you mean without choosing a key pair?
They don’t need a nostr identity (keypair) to interact with nostr content
How would that even be possible? That’s a core part of how the protocol works…
I can share a nostr note with a video with a normie via iMessage and they aren’t hassled to create an account like the are on IG, FB, TikTok, and Twitter. They can watch that video without any friction. That, in my mind, is the best advertising for the protocol
That’s not really interacting though. So you mean they can read content, but not post, chat, or react, correct?
Semantics. Swap “experience” or “consume” in. I meant that there’s nobody telling them to fork over info to participate. That’s humongous.
Is there such thing as a Nostr note with a video? Notes are just text, afaik videos are still hosted by a single media provider.
That infrastructure is being built
Point is I share shit from nostr non stop and the normies are grateful they can see without signing up
Huh. I wondered if that happens. So basically I just copy the browser link and this is visible for people who do not have an app client? But access through browser?
Sorry if you already shared all this, haven't scrolled through the thread yet.
Depends on your client what link they give you and how it looks in a browser, but yes, any website can display a nostr note, it’s all open source that’s what’s so amazing
Depends on how long your relays keep the posts. There are currently solutions for running your own private relay that stores all your own information. I believe some people are working on saving your own post locally on an app
Yeah, I noticed that too. I'd be happy to pay more for one that held notes forever.
Oh wow, this is news to me. The whole... once you post it its forever... and you cant delete motion was going on what just a few weeks ago.
Now there is a ln edit feature and request for deletion in Amethyst...
But I wished I'd known that everything from when I started that I have written and shared on here is GONE past 12 days.
Not complaining but pretty bummed.
Only surefire way to have all of your notes is to run your own relay or find a paid relay that will keep them all. I do not know any off hand.
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Where can I start slowly learning about running my own relay?
I thought the whole point of this thing is that its run by many relays and if one fails you still got many other back ups, kinda like Bitcoin miners and node runners?
Actually, paid relay at nostr.wine does not delete notes. Also, relay.tools offers “one click” relay self hosting.
That is the point, but similar to running a node for bitcoin running a relay for nostr can help grow the system or just have a private relay to store your content in case another relay you subscribe to goes down.
I seemed to have opned a can of worms... I don't have the energy to go through catching up with the conversation happening right now. Probably after this weekend and after I have finished listening to this interview with nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr I tuned into on my drive today that's getting my wheels spinning.