Nostr Web Client

I am here because I want to foster access to documentation, literature, and scientific information for the entire planet. Anyone who has access to a cell phone with a mobile or Internet connection should have the entire library of the world at his disposal. Break down all barriers. Check all of our privileges. Free the information. Foster discussion.

And if some harried surgeon in the jungles of Congo has something to contribute to a research team in Oxford, he should be able to click, "add comment" in the review section of their newest paper, and upload his field data, right from his cell phone, from his field clinic, in the middle of an Ebola outbreak. And they should be able to just hit the ♥️, so that he immediately knows they received that information and can go back to doing his job.

This is what we are building. This matters. This keeps me going.

This is Nostr.

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jamw 8mo ago

Probably the first time I’ve read an explanation of what you’re doing and in accessible language. Needs to be more of this type of content from those building. Very easy to get lost in what you’re building and assume everyone knows, because you know, or indeed will make the effort to find out/dig deeper. (not aimed at you btw). See things built and launched here and basically no one knows what it is. 😅

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 8mo ago

Then why did you support breaking the nostr wikis with asciidoc?

Laeserin 8mo ago

Because we needed markup powerful enough for publishing scientific papers and books.

Anyone who doesn't want to use Asciidoc, can use 30023 Markup events, as those can also be listed in a 30040 index. That is why we are also supporting writing and reading 30023s.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 8mo ago

Thanks for the explanation but doesn't really answer what I said

The wikis still got broken and put us very far behind on trying to build up a wikipedia alternative from empty

If fiatjaf's goal with starting from empty was to do something good, he wouldn't have stunted the growth like this

You did not have the right response to fiatjaf going "oh starting from empty wasn't bad enough, we also need to ruin all the entries of the first person who's created hundreds of wiki entries"

Laeserin 8mo ago

We're going to build a converter, so that anyone can just move everything over to the new format, by clicking a button. It's not a serious problem, going forward.

Laeserin 8mo ago

We need to build that, anyway, so that we can give people the opportunity to move their content from 30023 Markdown articles to 30041 Asciidoc articles.

That way, they can write in whichever markup they prefer and then "upgrade" or leave it, as is.

Moving from 30818 Markdown to 30818 Asciidoc is even easier. Just have to copy-paste the fields into a new event or set of events, and have them sign it.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 8mo ago

I'll never move to asciidoc. For me it'll just be markdown, wikitext, and a better future format with markdown's geographic neutrality but more features

Laeserin 8mo ago

Well, you can add code blocks with named syntax to Markdown, with the Nostr Markdown flavor. You would just need to design a client that reacted when it encountered a code block like

```wld

This is a code block containing nostr:npub1wamvxt2tr50ghu4fdw47ksadnt0p277nv0vfhplmv0n0z3243zyq26u3l2's awesome new functionality.

```

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 8mo ago

Thank you, I think I will end up using this info 🙏

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 8mo ago

Alright, I'll just have some faith you're trying to make everything work 🤙

ronniesamuel 8mo ago

💪🏾✨

Stephan Rinbaum 8mo ago

Exactly. The vision of "social media" should be a giant (searchable, filterable) blank wall to tag, with all of the users being the graffiti artists. No handles, no sign-ins, no guarantee of truth, but those willing to explore and verify will be provided with "the entire library of the world" at their disposal. Post whatever you want. Upload everything that you can find. It's not about clout, it's about inforomation sharing.

Sometimes I wonder if the creator looks at us like a disappointed parent, having given the child some fantastic gift, and then watching the child be fascinated with box rather than the contents. :)