Was odd to me that Telegram was the preferred network here v Signal. I just thought it was because you could have a username v give your number on Telegram.

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I mainly use Signal (I convinced my family to use it). I have Telegram, but rarely open the app

I mainly use Telegram (I convinced my family to use it). I have Signal, but rarely open the app

Yeah it's irritating that all of the nostr communities are on telegram

I would think they’d be on Matrix or Session. or another decentralized network like those.

Yeah same here

Telegram just has great set of functions :-/ anyhow #[9] asked for someone to port TG to nostr. Bit it might a bit hard as its not open source. Afaik

Maybe it’s time for nostr communities to… chat on nostr? Is it in the cards for Damus to support public and private group chats? #[8]

Would def move / mirror our telegram group chat over to Nostr.

Had support for that but people complained the chat view was confused so i removed it

Many things were confusing at the time maybe now we a bit got smarter

Definitely in the cards again!

I might look into that as it seems like a high impact / high demand feature.

If people hate it, we can let them turn it off through settings.

I think so too. Unfor looking to github reveals that public and private group chats still need a quite lot of work. So they might not work until long time - like a month 🤣

Would need multi platform support though

Absolutely

Keen to see this, maybe in a separate app? I think it could steal market share from slack and discord, there groups just want simple team/group chats.

* where

Something like this? https://thearcapp.com

Needs a lot of improvements.

👀

I imagine Iranian folk would want encrypted DM and privacy (i.e. not nostr in current form)? #[3]

I am definitely not suggesting nostr for use in hostile environments.

👍 I don’t mean to presume what OP envisioned use case is, so I asked

I dig it. 😯😲

I don’t know what it is, but I dig it. 😌🤙

Something like, yes. I’m running the TestFlight build, but it seems to have stagnated.

Anigma is a telegram style client on nostr, but pretty sure it had security issues re: keys being leaked or something along those lines

anigma is a most definitely a scam. it leaks your privkey on *purpose* and overrides your lightning address

If that’s true, then it’s unfortunate that nostr.com is apparently built on Anigma?

If you go to anigma it does show a disclaimer at the top telling you not to use a private key you aren’t comfortable leaking. I’m curious why they would put that disclaimer up there and not just fix the issue.

Looks to be #[10] repository on GitHub. He’s only on 3 relays here so not sure he’ll see this.

The creator quit supporting it after a bunch of security vulnerabilities. It's a shame, but this is voluntarism warts and all. https://twitter.com/super_testnet/status/1604973673836056576

Afaik the creator was not a javascript front end expert.... it was vanilla js in page and a fun experiment. I don't think it was intended as a scam.

All solutions are temporary until we can keep our private keys truly secure instead of having to input them into clients.

More people should checkout NIP-49, encrypted private key import/export. So far the only client I know that implements this is the Gossip client by #[13] Worth checking it out.

It's fairly trivial to fix anigma: escape innerhtml and implement window.nostr, so that it doesn't need to store any private keys. I'm not sure why no one has done it, maybe I'll do it this weekend.

rogue code can still decrypt your dms if the plugin is set to auto-decrypt

how would it override a lightning address? :|

Does anigma only leak if you are attached to it?

Even if I run the anigma vanilla js + html locally would it still leak?

(not the anigma web browser)

it was a cute experiment ala August 2022

Yeah probably, likely case is that someone is injecting a remote script inside of messages that sends your pubkey somewhere.

time for someone to make a better client? :D

this is one of the features yes. Also it is banned in some countries while Signal is not. This tells me everything 🤣

Ah Signal had really poor quality compared to Telegram going back about 5-6 years. Also recall that Signal wasn't well funded at the time either, it was barely scraping by.

Telegram really hit massive traction in the 2017 Crypto ICO Boom period when all the chatter swarmed there, along with a ton of hyip scams