Nostr Web Client

I literally know of exactly one person excited by the Pear stack, nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

Quite interesting to never see anything about it in my nostr feed

Speaking of, is Keet open source yet?

Leo Wandersleb 1y ago

I listened to the Guy interview yesterday, too and had the same thought. They did not go into much detail. Just that it magically works and that sounds intriguing but I also think I remember that some part of it was closed source and thus a no-go for me.

I want to understand the stack and the promises of the Pear stack. Can I run a Pear enabled nostr relay using a pubkey at home such that I can connect to it with my Pear enabled mobile client from wherever? I bet the devs would claim so and that would be cool but with not much buzz on nostr I feel like there must be something wrong with it.

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franzap 1y ago

Yes and the fact that they seem to be an isolated group of devs under one company financing it

keet dont tweet 1y ago

paolo who sort out mafintosh to build the team to do this is interested in it because he believes correctly it is the right technology especially over nostr

mafintosh has been at this for a long time before he met paolo, this was not their first project, mafintosh has a long history in open source, pear is completely open and makes up most of keet

they dont want to open all of keet yet because they want to keep everyone updated while they iterate fast, which they have done a lot of, they are also concerned with forks and exploits interfering with dev and interest in keet

there is a lot of interest in pear and there are many projects being built with it, they are usually discussed on keet because keet is now a fully functioning fully p2p ie no relays or servers social platform, it scales infinitely including for media or any files

nostr btw is still using centralized file storage, keet is completely p2p

fun bit of trivia mafintosh created webtorrent

keet dont tweet 1y ago

the buzz is on keet, there is no real need to discuss keet on other platforms because keet functions as its own social platform, and unlike nostr there is no relays to pay or configure, and all the files and media are distributed and censorship proof, keet is everything nostr is missing and needs

Guy Swann 1y ago

Yes you can do those things. And everything about the Pear stack is open source. Keet is just one chat app built on it, and it’ll be FOSS when they exit beta.

Guy Swann 1y ago

If “not enough buzz” was a reason to suspect there is “something wrong with it,” you’d have completely missed the first 8 years of #Bitcoin, just sayin. Not a reliable heuristic, imo.

halalmoney 1y ago

Nice point Guy. You make me wonder if hanging around for long enough around Bitcoin turns people into philosophers!

You either die before hyperbitcoinization, or you live long enough to become a philosopher.