Nostr Web Client

Nostr lacks decentralized discovery, although with some open mindedness it can be added easily, and I did some work to prove it can scale (120,000 users records kept alive on Bittorrent DHT with one 4cores vps) see more at github.com/nuhvi/pkarr

But I am curious, if you do have decentralized identity with Pkarr, and you can add that to Matrix protocol, to patch the need for identity servers, what else is going to be missing from Marrix, it is also signed events protocol, but with a lot of time to mature and state of the art encrypted chat rooms with moderation and access control.

What is your best argument against Matrix? Also how long can Nostr stay simpler than Matrix if it is going to have all these features you mentioned?

Melvin Carvalho 2y ago

> Nostr lacks decentralized discovery, although with some open mindedness it can be added easily

Let's build it!

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Blake 2y ago

A way to leave and read reviews for relays before joining would be cool..

s3x_jay 2y ago

Your comment made me think of the labeling system I devised this weekend (which will get put up as a PR later this week).

An unstructured, 3rd party label of another person's profile is basically a review / recommendation of the other Nostr user. It's broader than just recommendations for relays, but every relay lists the npub of the Nostr account that's responsible for it. The relay reviews could be put there. (Though they'd be mixed in with other reviews for that person/organization).

https://github.com/s3x-jay/nostr-nips/blob/master/68.md

Nuh 2y ago

I am doing my part at pkarr.nuh.dev, soon I will build proof of concept for a client that leverages that identity, but in the meantime I need to actually get people to care