Yep, common issue in nostr. Either deleted or back on an old state.

Follows and relays are linked in a single message. If you change relays before the app is able to download your follows, it assumes you don't have any follows and starts a new list.

Not sure how to fix this yet.

gm, thinking of ways a client can bootstrap a list of relays and test that they're minimally trustworthy in some way. maybe we end up defaulting to nip-05 relay recommendations - if that happens, would providers injecting their own relays into a user's records be helpful or viewed as an attack vector?

maybe a canary bot that tries to send restricted samizdata - 3D PDW files, politcally sensitive speech, financial transactions to blacklisted addresses - through a list of relays and testing end-to-end delivery would be useful?

Hmm what about now?

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Can someone zap me 1 sat? Trying new wallet

Mobiles could massively limit that once they get smarter about which events they query, remove duplicates, etc.

You made good points, but I think being human is seeing the reactions of your peers directly in their faces as you say something. Likes are an approximation of that, but I don't know if it gets close enough to be worth all the drawbacks.

But to be honest the nastier part is probably the notifications stuff always calling you to see that some random person you don't even know or value has clicked a button.

Another issue is that a like from someone that only likes things they actually do like should be worth more than a like from these crazies that just keep liking everything they see, but there is no real way to measure this -- while in the real life we can often tell fake likes from real likes.

Ordinals is a new fancy way of OP_RETURN to do the same, insert garbage on the chain.

If you think Bitcoin is a toy to play Wolf of Wall Street and be rich probably you want to promote Ordinals but if you value #Bitcoin as a open source, borderless, censorship-resistant form of money that allows to people to be sovereignly paid for their work have full control over their money, do not use or promote.

I think the zaps were a big mistake. You clearly have all lost your sanity here.

imo a problem is that a websocket connection will be established and require resources if the authentication is done on the note/pubkey signature layer as it is currently done. Unauthenticated websocket endpoints are harder to scale and are easier to DoS.

but my experience scaling websocket connections is limited - hence my question :)

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still wondering about this:

IF Nostr relays will require user authentication to connect and post, then it will not be possible to publish zaps to those nodes as lnurl-zap providers are not authenticated. (unless the lnurl-zap providers would pay for all of them)

is this correct?

requiring some authentication makes sense to protect against resource expensive connections - against DOS. is this correct?

Any idea how to combat zap cycling where two parties agree to zap each other’s content continually, effectively boosting each other at near zero transaction cost?

Idk it might be you producing these error stack traces xD

Does Amethyst send a tag with a list of relays for the zap request? I assumed in the code it would and that's why some requests are failing. Working on it rn.

Nostr is pretty slow.

Logged into a different machine and legit waited 5 minutes for anything to appear in my profile and timeline.

Is it only me? using snort.social

What is this?

Stacker News and vida.page also offer Lightning Addresses with zap support right now.

Both services are custodial, though.