Nostr Web Client

I hereby revoke my recommendations of Garnet and Nostrudel in light of Garnet turning out to be malware, as revealed by at least two contributors using the worst possible git and seeking feedback from its users instead of nostr users.

Amber and nos2x still seem cool, but pointless without any recommended clients to sign in with, so these recommendations can basically all be considered invalidated. I'm glad I was very careful not to "strongly recommend" anything.

Nostrudel was already known to be malware since it had zaps without any real cryptocurrency tipping, but its malice seems mixed with good intentions, and it would be worth weakly recommending under the pretense of having one of the widest ranges of functional features out of all the apps in an ecosystem which itself is, as a bigger picture, worth weakly recommending. Without an ecosystem worth weakly recommending, it's just the most functional app in an ecosystem of dysfunctional malware trash, not worth any level of Recommendation™

Nice and Kind Vic 1y ago

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "as revealed by at least two contributors using the worst possible git" ?? I'm only seeing a single code contributor to garnet (retrnull).

Amber can be used to sign into Amethyst.

NOS2X is a browser extension that can be used to sign into many web oriented nostr clients, including Nostrudel, Corny Chat and others.

Are you suggesting that Bitcoin, which zaps are referencing via Lightning, is not real cryptocurrency?

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

Not two code contributors - one is doing graphic design. They were "approached" to make an icon. That's two nyms seeking feedback on a nostr project but not from nostr - no nostr threads, they don't even have npubs copied and pasted in their threads. I'm more upset at the nostr community (and embarrassed with myself) for tolerating and promoting behavior like this than I am at these 2 people working on an interesting project, but it's all quite frustrating to me.

Amethyst is (probably benign) malware based on its tipping implementation, like most nostr clients. I'm pretty sure the amethyst project is also centered on the worst possible git, another malware red flag. Amber and nos2x are (also probably benign) malware for similar reasons. Same with nostrudel, corny chat, and others. Pretty much all modern software is malware, most of it is pretty benign but I hate it.

Bitcoin is a real cryptocurrency. Lightning is, well, a real cryptographic currency, but when we shorten that phrase to "cryptocurrency" it's supposed to mean something which takes inspiration from Bitcoin to use cryptography for the sake of functionality as a currency. If every currency that uses cryptography is a "real cryptocurrency" then I'm pretty sure every currency is a real cryptocurrency since every central bank probably has used PGP for at least one email in its history.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

I apologize if my other reply comes off as disrespectful towards you for being a lightning fan or if you're a GitHub user. You being a lightning fan is part of why I hope you'll draft a good NIP for Monero tipping, and if you're a GitHub user that also helps in that area since the nip repo is on GitHub.

Lightning is centralized and designed to attack the cryptocurrency ecosystem, but that's pretty much all I know about it. Your deeper understanding of lightning is essential for nostr's advancement because I don't know as much about how zaps work and it would be nice to have the Monero tipping NIP be respected and integrated by the lightning fans that run the NIP repo, who you surely get along with better than I do.