This is essentially what private relays could provide if clients allowed you to legitimately have only a private relay where you whitelist npubs. But seems like all the clients thay ive looked will still pull from some default relays and have not prioritized this use case 😔
It seems like the whole goal of clients right now is to obfuscate the existence of relays to users in hopes to onboard new users instead of embracing this really cool, unique part of nostr.
Id love that, or just give users the option when they input their nsec fir the first time to either go with suggested relays or build from scratch...seems like such a bad oversight to not have that at the start.
Ive settled on using telegram such use cases, which is sad.
There do not seem to be any clients that have built with this type of hyper local relay usage in mind, unfortunately. I ran into the exact same experience trial and erroring for the same goal.
This idea was the first light bulb for me at how nostr could empower communities. I hope someone builds with it in mind some day 😔
Ordinals is dead and the fee market is vibrant as ever and difficulty is screaming.
#bitcoin
I think unnecessary. I like that things cant be edited here, makes it more authentic.
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I am using proton with their supposid no logs subscription 🤞
But niw that i know how to do it i might try it with mullvad.
Props to the boys over at Mcafee vpn for helping me set it up...
psyche ofc i didnt do that 🤣
Digital privacy win:
i successfully put my entire hoise's internet on a router running with 2 separate vpn tunnels and there is not a noticable drop in usability for streaming, internet browsing, etc 😀
So nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx gave an absolute masterclass on the problems with Musk's current Twitter approach on WBD, starting at the 17m mark. It's a great advertisement for Nostr and I recommend everyone watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ms-dE6aasA
I've been retweeting or reposting Odell's various observations on this topic for a while and so I'm happy to share this too, including on Twitter today, even as a filthy blue-check myself.
Where I disagree with Odell (slightly) is on tactics. He thinks people should give up blue checks in protest. And that's a very fair position. I don't disagree, especially for someone like Odell with a purist position and a generally cypherpunk audience.
But I think there are multiple successful paths on this. I have always been a Twitter fan, and my normie audience is there. I wanted to be able to pay for better UX and anti-impersonation defenses for years before they became available. Just because Musk is running it doesn't mean I won't pay for helpful services, especially if they protect my audience. Real people lose money to Lyn Alden impersonation scams if they can't tell my account from others, and I directly hear from them when it happens. It's always heartbreaking.
So, I'm on the offensive, not the defensive. The way I view it, unless or until someone censors me on Twitter, they're locked in there with me, rather than me being locked in there with them. If having a blue check reduces the success rate of impersonation scams and amplifies my reach at calling out Twitter's problems, I'll have the blue check. What I absolutely *won't* do is change what I say based on a blue check. If anything, I purposely overdo it to the opposite and exaggerate my criticisms on purpose to push back against platform incentives.
Two simultaneous approaches:
1) Call out the problem on Twitter. Don't give Musk a pass. Point out that a pro-freedom, pro-anonymity view doesn't match with what is going on there. Don't let his rhetoric disguise his inaction. If Twitter cares about freedom and anonymity then they will offer a paid option that doesn't require identity (e.g. the "orange check" bitcoin payment.) Until something like that, they are LARPing and are fair to criticize as such.
2) Have your foot here on Nostr and on decentralization technologies generally. In the long run, I think this is the future. And more importantly, I hope it is.
.."theyre locked in here with me..."
fuck ya Lyn get em
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Thats shitty
All other clients i tested had some similar problems, amethyst just is fresh on my mind.
Hosting relays arent the problem...its that most clients seem to set defaults and even make it impossible to remove certain relays ( on amethyst for example i cant remove nostr.band no matter what) so you cant taylor the client to only interact with your relay. If i wanted to have friends and family relay if i put them on amethyst for example theyd still get global from nostr.band 😔
Stay strong friend, i feel similar.
That sucks...i did extensive testing to try and do the same thing...clients seem to have evolved to not support that use case 😔
Iris is the only client i could get it to work on.
Beautiful!