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Cody 1y ago

Hello everyone! Despite being a distributed social network enthusiast, I somehow only learned of Nostr this week.

I actually wrote (and still use) an experimental distributed social network called FeoBlog. I’ve been happy to see that many of the features I’d implemented there are also present in Nostr. But there’s actually a large community here. 😅

I’ve already started writing some tools for working with Nostr, partly as a way to learn more about the protocol. See my replies here for some of my initial questions. Looking forward to making some connections here!

#introductions

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TableCityTokers 1y ago

🧡🫂💜 welcome #PlebChain

#GrowNostr

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captain ☦️ 1y ago

Welcome to our cult 💜🧡

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SUPERMAX 1y ago

Love this image lmao

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Cody 1y ago

Am I reading the documentation for the socket protocol for relays correctly? Does it always fall back to streaming mode after you run a search? So the way to just do a search without streaming is to cancel the subscription after you’ve received the notice that you’re entering streaming mode? 

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captain ☦️ 1y ago

I think that's how it works

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Cody 1y ago

What’s with the Nostr/Bitcoin overlap? I’m not a big fan of cryptocurrency or blockchain-all-the-things. And Nostr itself (thankfully) isn’t implemented atop a blockchain.

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Rudy Nutstink 1y ago

The creator of nostr nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 has also done work in the bitcoin community. Lots of bitcoiners are the open source contributors to these clients and have even took implementing features like “zaps” which are micropayments denominated in sats (smallest bits of bitcoins) paid over the lightning network (instant and feeless)

You can zap someone as small as 1 sat (fraction of a cent) if you like.

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Cody 1y ago

There seem to be multiple relays that are just open and accept content from strangers. That’s very generous, but how do they cope with spam and abuse?

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Cody 1y ago

FWIW my FeoBlog implementation dealt with both by only accepting content signed by people who were explicitly allowed on that server, or followed by one of those people.

Are there Nostr relay implementations that can do something similar?

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captain ☦️ 1y ago

Check out https://relay.tools

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Ronin 1y ago

There are paid relays, you can also have private relays I thing with whitelisted npubs. Relays have many policies for spam, requests by time frame etc, by ip address etc, but the most important is at user level, if you don't follow that npub you won't see much spam.

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SUPERMAX 1y ago

Yp that's awesome! Welcome💜

I'd like to #zap you. Do you know how do add that to your profile? If not I can help you!

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Cody 1y ago

I do not. I assume I need to add a wallet address?

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SUPERMAX 1y ago

Yes. Do you have a #Bitcoin wallet by chance? Or specifically a #lightning wallet?

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Cody 1y ago

Nope! Neither.

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SUPERMAX 1y ago

Oh great! We can get you started! I recommend to use one of these wallets just to get started with your Lightning Address. Either download or Sign up for any of these, or maybe you have already

nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9

nostr:npub1jfujw6llhq7wuvu5detycdsq5v5yqf56sgrdq8wlgrryx2a2p09svwm0gx

https://zebedee.io/

nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5

Get a Lightning Address and set it up, add to your profile, then we can #Zap you!

Learn more here at https://lightningaddress.com/

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welcome 👋