Does nostr have something similar to Facebook groups? Where people with similar interests talk about the topic the group is based upon? #asknostr
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Hashtags might be the closest thing? I know there was a book club here a while back. Not entirely sure how they organised
Does it have something to do with relays dedicated to specific topics? I thought I recently heard something about that. You can connect to a dedicated relay for zap cooking or something?
Yeah zap.cooking has their own relay to house the recipes people upload. The alexandria project has their own relay repository too. Not sure of any other topic specific relays. Its been talked about for years but not sure many people have implemented it.
hmm...yeah that would seem to be one of the next best developments in this space. It would be nice to have topic specific groups somehow. Hashtags are ok but somehow lack the precision a dedicated group with willing participants would have I think
There are a couple different approaches that are hopeful, but it's still all very young.
Zap.cooking is becoming a great example of a topic-specific client, melding topic + community, through relays + filtering.
jumble.imwald.eu has Discussions, which are somewhat reddit-like topic based threads, also accessible through flotilla.social . They are a relay-first design, which is helpful to know when navigating through them on imwald and absolutely necessary to know when viewing them in flotilla.
Relay-based private & public chat groups are getting better, too. Chachi.chat is set up to organize multiple types of posts. The main chat is accessible across all other group chat clients, too, like flotilla, so participants aren't tied to one client, for most of the activity.
This stuff is getting better. Part of what's lacking is patient, explorative, maybe less-techie people willing to participate and set up groups & the relays to host them, so this stuff can be improved further.
You're welcome to take a look at one of my example groups, Igneous is Bliss, https://chachi.chat/spatia-arcana.com/oysloughfidr where I talk about rocks, to myself and sometimes a couple other people :)
We're trying to center wss://basspistol.org around music, arts and creativity. It's going slow. The whole community dimension around relays is still setteling in in the nostr hive mind it's going to take some time. For it to work, more clients might have to acknowledge relays as more than "dumb pipes". Like nostr:nprofile1qqsvyv8d6dx2tjp33069j2kq2mx7xage6w2upyzvxl4pcegt3t22wyspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg6waehxw309ac8junpd45kgtnxd9shg6npvchxxmmd9uq3samnwvaz7tmnwpshg6tp94shycmpdesjucm0d5hsyvtxr6 writes bellow, at this point in time, there are a few such clients. Check them out, and let me know if you want to be added to basspistol.org
Hey would love to be included!
Embarassed to think you weren't. But ou are now!! Here some basics:
Yeah would love to check that out! Sign me up!
You're in! On https://basspistol.org you'll find a few settings, like NIP-05 (strangelove@basspistol.org as short for your npub), creation of group chats. You can also invite a few friends who can then invite friends. you'll find a blossom for media files (audio, video, pictures etc) and inbox that doubles as a DM relay on wss://basspistol.org/inbox There's more stuff we can discuss at a common convenient moment.
OK cool! I haven't messed around with relays yet. So this will be another learning curve for me but I can pick up on things quickly once I start poking around and using it. Hopefully in a week or two I will have a better understanding. Thanks man!
The hashtags are your closest bet to that.
Pathos.place has country centered discussion.
We can use the same spec to build topical discussion.
Which topics you interested in?
It would be cool to have different groups for artists. Music groups for indie musicians and bands, photography groups for photographers etc. is pathos . place a nostr client?
Yes pathos is a nostr app but the use case and target customer are different than yours.
I will build this for you and your indie music community.
How would you like the indie music open community to be called?
“Indie music”?
Not really, people have tried to make a Reddit style app, with limited success. I’m not sure there are enough people here to really have a vast array of topic discussions yet. Jumble has a relay selector that acts like a community feed. On nostr:npub1xxdd8eusvdxmaph3fkuu9x2mymhrcc3ghe2l38zv0l4f4nqp659qskkt7a there are feeds just focused on food.
So far noster is closest to twitter (without the censorship.. I don't think specific groups were a thing on twitter, mostly just hashtag groups.
Like has been said, our participation rate is a bit to low to wall off sections at this time. I don't see why something like that could be done though.....
Maybe vibe code it. 🤗
just heard about vibe coding in the last month or two. It sounds interesting. Is Shakespeare the best for doing thins? or are there other sites that are similar?
I don't know exactly. Mostly a joke. That said I have used AI to create some ansible and bash scripts, configure a relay etc did a pretty good job but you need to verify everything ...... 😃
Could you have an nsec for the group
You want to join i give you the nsec
We all post under the same nsec but use our nym to distinguish who's saying what
Some people will post under another's nym and all sorts
Game theory groups 🤣🤣
Quoted my response
at the moment, flotilla, jumble, nostr.ble and chachi are the closest to creating communities
They kinda did although more reddit style. Problem is almost no client supports it.