MAKE NIP-28 GREAT AGAIN
Does anyone use public chat rooms anymore or did that die with Anigma’s epic fall to the allmighty XSS attack?
Discussion
NDK dev/support chat is through NIP-28
Mainly to suffer how buggy clients’ implementation of NIP-28 it is 😂
Nice! 😂
nostr-rs-relay also has a channel for support/discussions but doesn’t seem to be very active.
https://www.nostrchat.io/channel/2ad246a094fee48c6e455dd13d759d5f41b5a233120f5719d81ebc1935075194
Yeah. New users on Amethyst sometimes say Hi & post queries on Amethyst Users group. Sometimes others answer queries, sometimes Vitor does and other times there's spam. It somewhat works
Does nostrchat.io count?
Absolutely! Any channels you’d recommend?
Well, the downside seems to be that they don't hold in the app, they always get deleted. Previous version held the rooms you'd commented on...
In the main chat there are a few lists of other channels.
The Sovereign Bitcoiner
Discussion of tools for being a sovereign Bitcoiner
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Liberty Memes
5th generation meme warfare in the cause of liberty
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Plebeian Market Square
Channel for a promising marketplace app
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Nostroholics Anonymous
A group dedicated to recovery from internet addiction and other lifestyle problems with a focus on physical exercise to promote a healthy body and mind
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Austin Nostr Club
A chat for folks living in the Nostr capital of the world, Austin, Texas
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Nostrid app does the best sorting of chatrooms, but haven't logged in recently.
I haven’t had any problems with loosing channels I’ve joined yet. Thanks for the channel recommendations!
Close and go back to page for test...
hmm yeah, it seems to forget the channels you haven’t written to. I joined nostr-rs-relay and wrote there and that channel is persisted. However, the channels I joined from your first reply were lost.
I recommend you checkout Nostrid for the channels feature. Superior to other clients on that regard, IMO. Awesome dev, too, although pretty quiet the last few weeks...
They are pretty usable on Amethyst with paid relays only
The Arc iOS app was a good start for channels. It was full of spam and it was too hard to find people actually using a channel.. 99% are dead.
It’s a weird mix between Chatroom channels and chat messages - and like a reddit post and then related comments.
I don’t think we have seen solid UX yet.
It’s also the hardest to manage content ranking, as you can’t just use your following list. It’s the Wild Wild West and you have to rank or filter content differently.
Arc seems nice. Tested it a while ago but haven’t used it since.
Well, should you really rank something in a chat room at all?
Not a chat room.
But, it could be used as a channel, posts and comments setup.
Subreddits/topic = kind 41
Posts = channel messages kind 42
Replies to posts = kind 1
Ranking posts and then replies can make sense once you have enough volume.
interesting, is there anyone building such an application today?
I don’t know of anyone.
It seems that since Jan, everyone has been focused solely on the kind 1 use case (for client apps), and all channel/group stuff went on hold.
There are some tough issues to solve like how would moderation work. I know we have a count kinds defined, but you really need to be able to delegate moderation, not just have a channel creator or something.
And I only mention moderation because things like off topic posts and other stuff are painful without some kind of moderation. If you don’t like that channel, start your own.
Like an /n/AIArt would be an awesome channel. Posts are new images. Maybe a media gallery view type. Zaps go to poster. And comments or conversation fits below. Like stacker news for example.
Yeah I remember the Dall-E channel on Anigma went crazy when Dall-E were made available to the public😂
Channel moderation is an important point. NIP-28 defines muting messages and users but that doesn’t hold up in a big channel.
Will nostr chat clients breathe some life into the much ignored nostr feature, CHANNELS? They seem like such a powerful tool to streamline community oriented discussions.
I hope to see more development on these in the near future.
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