I have not been paying much attention to nostr for 2 months as things have been busy, but the holiday break is upon us shortly, wherein I'll have a bit of time. Can anybody who still follows me give me a brief update on what has happened over the last few months, especially in the world of clients, relays, and the protocol?
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2 months isn't enough time for anything
but nostr:npub13hyx3qsqk3r7ctjqrr49uskut4yqjsxt8uvu4rekr55p08wyhf0qq90nt7 made a desktop client in rust
Whats that client? I cant find it
It's Linux only right now, Pleb Client..
You can get an rpm or Deb from GitHub
jb55 is pushing nostrdb into all his clients
whitenoise is a secure messaging app
rabble vibecoded a vine/tiktok client and preloaded it with all the old vine videos and got a bit of media hype
a bunch of random vibe coded stuff via gleasons shakespeare
ive started playing with the git announcements. fiatjaf added some git subcommands to nak
My client uses Nostrdb also
I haven't used nostrdb myself but architecturally I think it is spot on. I did something similar with https://github.com/mikedilger/pocket which is used by https://github.com/mikedilger/chorus
lol the vibeslop from gleason and rabble is depressing
I had big hopes for the vine reboot.
But its, meh. Still waiting on app release, hopefully the app is actually ok.
Definitely not an equivalent to tiktok, as it only has 6 second videos
bitchat
nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q got really good and was://spatia-arcana.com was created
farcaster has given up being a social networking protocol and pivoted into a shitcoin wallet
there was some outcry on bluesky because someone learned it sucks:
https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4
Umm, let's see.
I wrote a new android app for managing/browsing relays. It's been fun.
There is a WOT hackathon ongoing till April that is interesting to follow.
Opensats seems to be sponsoring nostr in less waves, could be telling of something tho we won't know what.
Devine app is launching soon using old twitter short videos, could be a huge splash of users that are unaware they're on nostr.
There, that's a decent summary I think for ya 😎😁 wb.
I built nostr:nprofile1qqsdr0fnxvmn8hxyz8cwazfm8zu9yt7qmc38ll69nkvsgn8dnej4sxckxm0xe, please give it a go if you have the time 🤙
DiVine, a Vine style shortform video app using Nostr, is in the process of being launched.
Calls in 0xchat and NosCall
Nostr wrapped came out today.
Primal and yakihonne have both had some improvements.
Amethyst created a way to shadowban people from its own users. (If you're on amethyst and you follow 5 people that all have the same person muted, and you don't already follow that person, they are automatically muted for you)
Others have already mentioned everything else I can think of.