Nostr

Can you point me to the notes you're looking for? It could be a kind coracle isn't asking for.

Wish list: coracle direct links work in most contexts, but boy are they long. This is a problem when posting them to, e.g. SMS.

The satellite.earth client has much shorter direct links. I'm guessing they use a hash, or possibly a database with random ids.

An example of a satellite.earth direct link:

https://satellite.earth/thread/note1cy5ggl77z0z5u9tup993wsl9me0tanhsudm9ueefr4glqmwcrresv6exhf

Of course, given the nature of Nostr, I can post with Coracle, and then get a direct link from satellite.earth.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

hodlbod 2y ago

Interestingly, the longer link is better because it includes a list of relays the event can be found at, which is very important long-term for finding content. Ultimately, I don't know that there's anything we can do about link length that isn't centralizing.

5dcd8ebc... 2y ago

Since the url already has a particular host, "all" you need is a shortcut database. There are 3rd party sites that shorten urls as well, but better if the original url site does it. Of course, that means storing more data.

hodlbod 2y ago

True, slightly centralizing but not too bad. That's not what satellite is doing though, they're just giving you a possibly dead link.

5dcd8ebc... 2y ago

For my own purposes, I think I'll just make my own url shortener on my own domain.

Derek Ross 2y ago

FYI w3.do is URL shortener built on Nostr.

Doog 2y ago

Would it be possible to somehow encode the list of relays into some sort of hash (not the word I am looking for, as I currently understand hashes are one way)

the axiom 2y ago

No. The only thing that exists are compression algorithms (zip) but in this case the difference would be negligible and the efforts herculean.