One thing holding me back on NOSTR is the search. I spent my entire career in data/reporting so I view all posts as database entries to go back and 'mine' words, Dorsey's, yours, and mine.

For instance, I painstakingly wrote up notes on Saylor explaining the 5 types of investors in Bitcoin. Going to the transcript, reformatting it, etc.

I remember it had Denier and Skeptic in it but I can't find it using any client search inside NOSTR or using "The Google."

For 2025, I would like to not renew my blue check on Twitter but it is impossible for me to be limited on my posts (TLDR) and some of us need the search.

I know, I know, everyone likes to think what they post today is earth shattering but I really, really like to go back to what has been said the past almost 16 years in Bitcoin and last almost 4(?) on NOSTR.

Huge Fan of NOSTR and I am patient as Hell. Some of us were around when the Internet was being built:

"404 Page Not Found - Site Under Construction"

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"NIP-50 search functionality has not been implemented itself. Searching for Nostr through Google requires Google to add an interface."

Have you checked out https://nostr.band

Add a space ...

My bad ... you wanted "skeptic" too ..

I managed to use a filter with your npub to do it ... I haven't played around with it much I just know that website exists!

Oops..got it, yea, it's still a ton better than what I have been using. Thank you.

Glad it helps, it's a sweet project i heard of here ... early days of the internet vibes 🤙

Sorry...I need more words, I don't understand.

Yeah, it’s still very cumbersome to use Nostr like a proper social media. I have all kinds of difficulties too and my posts don’t get any interactions whatsoever lately. Even the npub search is broken for me. I believe all these will be fixed in the future though.

Yeah, I almost fall over if I post anything and get notifications. But I do know it's different, not going for likes but Value 4 Value which is cool. I tend to think I take a ton of time to post a lot of information, sometimes hours, but I get nothing.

But someone posts GM and gets a ton of interaction.

On Xitter it is even worse for me, but I do think NOSTR is the place to ultimately go but it is still in early development which is fine, but for me, Been there Done that so I am riding the coattails at this point in my life. Too old to lead the way.😤

"proper social media" you mean something that spies on you and manipulates you?

I was obviously talking about UI.

unfortunately it really is a middle/back end problem that you can't just magic up a search button...

this is my specialisation, after all, not that i have actually built a full text search engine, i rewrote fiatjaf's filter search system so it was more readable

nostr filters are all you get as a guarantee, there is some nip for search functionality, the hipster in crowd nostriches like to call them "DVM" and nostr.band is one of the search capable relays i think

Just came across this two minutes after I read your post.

nostr:note1v30ckkgh5ux6w45cqqm4uuppgsut4xq8vc262xa2paz4cchhmxxquntedf

nobody pays anyone to build relays, which is the nostr word for the database that drives nostr

i built one https://geyser.fund/project/realy pretty much did all of the work unpaid

adding full text search feature to it is a good 6 weeks of work, it's not a small feature

i'd love to do it but i have to spend my time doing dumb shit with shitcoin databases to pay my rent and feed myself

put it on github