Nostr Web Client

It seems to me that nostr is an awesome social media protocol but just not really meant for DMs at all. The current solution seems a little clunky and not scalable to a good messaging experience. What if nostr added some support for people including their matrix usernames and then nostr clients could work to incorporate a full matrix messaging experience in addition to the social media side of things that already works so well. A client like this would have a fantastic social media, messaging, group chat, video calling, and payment (via lightning) experience. It’s like a decentralized super app lol.

jb55 2y ago

Matrix is a horrific protocol last i looked at it

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nxt-g3n 2y ago

Interesting! why do you say that?

Alex Gleason 2y ago

I was thinking it would be cool to implement Matrix API so you could use Element with Nostr. But yeah it's so horrendous I'm not sure I'd want to be responsible for that.

Luxas 2y ago

It already exists lol https://github.com/8go/matrix-nostr-bridge

page394 2y ago

I’m partial to #[8] myself if we’re talking of porting DMs to another service

Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

It feels like SimpleX's concept of rotating message queues can be easily recreated in Nostr.

nxt-g3n 2y ago

I’d never heard of it before, but definitely looks interesting

8b278ad8... 2y ago

Yes, maybe people have experienced the horrificness.

There is a talk from earlier this year about how they are making an noble effort to improve the thing in their next version: https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/matrix20/

nxt-g3n 2y ago

Have these changes already started taking effect? I admittedly don’t have much experience at all with matrix but tried it the other day and thought the basic messaging functionality at least was fairly smooth. Far from the worst I’ve experienced haha

8b278ad8... 2y ago

I use their Android Element client and room sync is way faster than it used to be, as demonstrated in the talk.

The UX still bothers me though, I wish it was slicker.