Nostr Web Client

So, I have a #BlueSky now - and I took a first initial look at the UI and new-user-experience. And, I have to applaud them, it's awesome.

- Immediately upon entering a valid invite, you are shown fields to input your E-Mail and Password. So I fed it a SimpleLogin alias and a Bitwarden generated password and dumped that into my vault. To me, the E-Mail neccessity is annoying, but to a "generic user" this would be fine. Just plug in a GMail and move on.

- When setting up my initial follows, I am shown what seems to be curated topics. On Nostr, that would be a list of the most popular hashtags. After picking a few, I can then follow the people most active around these categories. In Nostr, that would basically be `SELECT npub FROM notes WHERE kind=1 AND tags CONTAINS topic LIMIT 1000 GROUP BY npub ORDER BY COUNT;` on something like Nostr Band. Just pick the latest posts with a certain tag and show the most popular users in that list.

- When clicking Follow and Unfollow, it is ridiculously fast. I am used to waiting a few seconds for the action to actually take effect or be represented in my respective GUI.

- My username is ingwiephoenix.bsky.social - I can remember that, and it reminds me of my nip05. But I have seen other people with different domains, so I can probably just run my own and thus copy my current NIP05 if I wanted to. It is more readable than an npub string, but feels far less portable. It may be as un-portable as a Fediverse name.

- URLs are structured quite simply: /profile/$username/status/$statusid - easy to remember, but not short like snort.social/e/abc...

Overall, the UI feels very responsive and fast and the layout is "basically Twitter". But I also noticed: No DM support.

I have yet to read ATProto and dig into the socialness of that platform, but now that I have an account, I can check it as much as I would like to!

Also, my bio is just my primal link https://primal.net/ingwie

I am a Nostr main, period. ^^

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Discussion

Melvin Carvalho 2y ago

It's a good UX, we should learn from it. Or port their client to nostr. Do they own your keys, though? At proto is a train wreck, honestly. They have cherry picked things from other systems quite inconsistently, and not the best bits, some of the worst bits. They have about 6 different types of identity in a single json file that is inconsistent with the standard and itself. It cant scale too well without a giant server. However they did make the smart move of investing (alot) in infrastructure, which is something they did better than nostr. Nostr can handle 10k DAU, maybe 2x that right now, in the hobby network, but not 10x like bluesky can. Different approaches, lots to learn, I hope it can be discussed at Nostrasia, especially scaling nostr, the good onboarding, great content curation for new and existing users. In that order because, onboarding is most useful when the network has capacity for new users.

Ava 2y ago

Moi aussi l'ai trouvé aisé d'entrée, mais je vais m'organiser pour m'y concentrer et pouvoir consulter tous les profils de ceux qui ont répondu spontanément à mon salut..

J. Garber et ses équipes continuent leur chantier sur AT Protocol ils devaient même démarrer avant nostr donc on verra bien sur cette nouvelle de décentralisation des plateformes sur des protocoles

🍮 Vanilla(static)CMS 2y ago

nostr:npub1tcekjparmkju6k83r5tzmzjvjwy0nnajlrwyk35us9g7x7wx80ys9hjmky I think it is a closed community, for example your profile is not public on internet (you see a redirect on login page) https://ingwiephoenix.bsky.social