nostr has its issues. but for those who figure it out, it’s the most powerful network that exists today. challenge is helping more people figure it out.

likely most of that won’t come from social use cases, but rather the microapps that #[0]​ originally envisioned and folks like #[1]​ are focused on building.

the power of this thing is the ecosystem part. it’s permission-less, meaning anyone can build whatever they want, and it has a permission-less global payment system readily available through bitcoin. but neither will sell people on joining it.

if the apps built on top of nostr do valuable things, like https://highlighter.com does, then every nostr app and use case benefits, including the social clients.

this is going to be a long road, but one that fundamentally changes the way people experience the internet. if it doesn’t succeed itself, it will certainly inspire the thing that does.

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Freedom will drive the markets until freedom no longer exists...

well said 🫂

nostr is still just a baby 👶 excited to see it grow up! ✨

The key is to spread #nostr everywhere like wildfire on mainstream channels and keep on pushing it.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Ask me how I reposted this 8 times

Why not 9?

The killer app is just the same identity across everything.

Imagine using letterboxd, twitter, and goodreads, but you only need one account

Def one part of it

Yeah, that’s a big part of it.

Another big part of it is kind-independent floating links and the in-protocol, transparent discoverability that can be built because of it.

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That’s an interesting perspective Pablo. If I’m getting this right, the entire finance system on a larger scale can be a different model than those in the market for fiat or smart contracts

This is what made Facebook Login so popular. Now, with the emergence of the #DigitalIdentity State, folks are starting to understand what's at stake.

Is it possible to also integrate other blockchains?

Just joined yesterday and have to say nostr looks like what other blockchain communities are missing, too.

Where do you start if you're interested in development?

Nostr has no relationship with any blockchains.

Why are you so against relationships?

😂😂😂

relationships are the key to success in all dev - even if it's difficult.

thank gods

What’s best way to keep up w the micro apps being built

check out NostrDevs we do it monthly at the lab

https://youtu.be/6IAe4ynhHqY

I didn’t know about this 👀

Ya Super Testnet and Captain Stacks have been doing it every month in Austin at PlebLab the attendence is growing

Pablo actually now has 48 hours in a day.

Pablo has Hermione's time-turner 😉

😂😂😂😂 I wish!

just like a woman, she (nostr etc) absolutely will need some fancy feathers. she absolutely has no patience for being told what to do - hence permission-less.

Appreciate all you do for this community#[3]​ !

Grasping and understanding the little documentation there was for Nostr development felt like the early days of the Internet but once you get it, you get it. Afterward, this made it really easy to spin up my trivia for sats apps I built #[4]​ #[5]

Agreed. I'm not a tech smart person but I want to bring people here and enhance my experience.

The revolution will not be televised, the revolution is here on nostr.

So what about bluesky? Is atprotocol a dead end if nostr is the most powerful network that exists today? And what about twitter/Musk? Where do you stand on all these exactly? I know nobody here criticises you because they want your money. But I'm curious, do you ever want to be accountable to yourself at least?

agree. clear the decks for focus.

We are team bitcoin

Can anyone recommend a good podcast explaining these micro apps and the potential of nostr? Curious to learn more

I did a talk at nostrica about this.

How do I find it? Can you send a link?

Thank you. Looking forward to checking it out

If #[4]​ is on board I think we’re good

¿Cómo se puede ayudar a seguir mejorando?

Concise inspirational views easy to share thank you

Are these micro apps similar to the mini-programs, WeChat has in its ecosystem?

But then of course completely decentralized and permission less ? Or do I understand wrong?

Yeah, and with the NIP I’m proposing app discoverability happens transparently/automatically based on what apps your follows recommend/use

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Agree. Future best use for Nostr protocol is utility. Not a focus on building social network.

the social graph transcends the social network though, which is absolute magic

I can't fathom what's downstream from this and that's kinda the fun in building all this stuff

Developers like you get to have the fun of building it. End users like me just give feedback.

But even from my point of view I can see potential beyond legacy social media.

All of it.

What I’m saying I’d that the social graph you construct also improves the non-social media use cases 😊

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Good morning 🌞

Good Morning #[5]​ ☀️🫂💜

Good morning 🌞

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Hi - I am not a programmer but hope that I understood more or less how it works and would like to know - is it - and if so how - possible to run an own - hows it called instance or server with own domain and if so - how can one manage this and how much does it cost (the script is free but what does it need to run - ) ??

Thanks a lot in advance

Btw -- friends with smartphones get error messages when signing up - I used a laptop and had no problems

I dont have an input field for own posts -- is this not free ?

Remember geocities.com?

HTML broadened the developer base…this massively helped the internet to grow.

I don’t know if there can be an equivalent for nostr apps, but having everyone and their brother able to build something fast is a massive advantage.

This is what I’m working on with #[5]

Highlighter is awesome. I was able to highlight things from substack and the LA times. I still haven't wrapped my head around what this means for the future of publishing.

🤙

Inspirational, and made a lot of sense

Well said! My number one worry about Nostr is related to privacy issues.

https://www.psacramento.com/how-developers-can-mitigate-the-risks-of-user-data-being-exposed-on-nostr/

nostr is not only a replacement of twitter, but also a replacement of pinterest, pinboard, and raindrop: https://pinstr.app/

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Can nostr be used for smart home devices?

Now that I've used it a few weeks I can say thank you..👍

well said

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I got plenty of time to watch it play out. The alternative is dogshit

Nostr feels like it will replace the internet as we know it. If that is the case nostr feels like ~1995ish to me.

Lots to build. Incredibly bullish on nostr.

yup