Nostr Web Client

I've been on Nostr for 9 months now. I've seen Nostr grow at breakneck speeds. Most users across Nostr assume that no client is feature complete. Most of us assume that client's features are going to be missing, broken, and improving on a daily basis.

The questions came about with ZBD because it's the first Nostr client to be closed source and manage Nostr private keys for users. That's different than anything we've seen before. Because of this, we're cautious and asking questions because we want wants best for the entire protocol and all apps across the ecosystem.

For me on a personal level, I recommend apps to people on a daily basis. I get public and private questions about Nostr clients. I can't recommend something to someone if I haven't used the client or if I don't know it's insides and outsides. If I was given access to ZBD, I'd do what I always do, I'd create a burner account and play around. But since I can't, I'm asking here in public to get some answers. 🤙🏻

Rustypuppy 2y ago

Anyone who has been here 9 months is in an entirely different class than me and (I’m guessing) quite a few of those of us onboarded via ZBD. 🫡

The easier it is to come into the Nostrverse (and ZBD made it easy and fun and rewarding), the more ‘users’ there will be who have different assumptions than the coders and builders who came before.

(Continued in next comment because I maxed out my character count … )

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Rustypuppy 2y ago

For example, @samsamskies replied with 3 ways to zap at a note level from a Nostr client. 1 way involved GitHub, which as a non-coder I avoid. The other 2 were websites. Both had terms I have no idea what to do with.

I’m sure you’d could easily use any of the 3. I assume he thought I could too. Coders are amazing folks… who sometimes assume a level of technical proficiency some of us just don’t have.

I think ZBD is trying to help their user ‘users’ and it’s a different path.

Ryan 2y ago

ZBD has a character limit? Definitely try other clients and expand your horizons. I've never seen that on any other Nostr app. I wonder why ZBD made that decision?

Rustypuppy 2y ago

I put in a request for a larger limit so I could post my microfiction as text. I didn’t know other clients don’t have limits.

I use Damus for things ZBD is still working on, but I can only look, not like/zap/post because I don’t have my nsec yet.

Been thinking about creating another account, but not sure I want to keep up with two. I know I’m in a small garden; that mostly works for me right now.