I'm also looking into signing using XTAG 424 DNA NFC tags/cards. They support on-board secp256k1 signing. Might be possible to get working using Android.
Just recorded this update on Nostria, demonstrating some of the new features that has been added:
This is correct, with Blockcore Notes (that I developed) it rarely asked for signing. For Nostria, I'm very much focused on limiting the amount of signing requests. Once you have provided the public key, that is enough. Only if you completely sign out, it should be requested again.
Primal asks for my pubkey all the time, signs empty settings, etc. I created an GitHub issue for it, hopefully they can improve it.
trying https://www.nostria.app/
can login
looks neat, reminds me of ditto.pub
it is very early, can't post a note
#nostria
Hi and thanks for trying it out! Yes, can't post yet, that will come soon. Focusing on the important bits so they are working well.
Push notifications was done a couple of days ago, needs some additional tweaks to it.
Media library is mostly done, Badges is partially done, Relay management is done.
There is Release Channel in settings now, enabling Stable, Beta and Preview. Obviously it is all "Preview" now.
Thanks again! ❤️
Yes, it is all here: https://github.com/nostria-app
Working on populating the Nostria Discovery Relay, here is the results so far:
First: Purple Pages Relay
Second: Discovery Relay with Damus backup (10002)
Third: Discovery Relay with Damus backup (10002+3)
Fourth: Discovery Relay + nos dot lol.
Some of the profiles without photos are discovered, they just don't have a profile image anymore. I will implement different styles depending on discovery status.
Imported 500,000+ relay lists from Damus, almost 200,000 following lists (only those who actually have relays in them).
Working on implementing negentrop support, which should make it easier to sync with other relays.
So far so good!
Kind of like an NIP-28 (Public Chat) but for Private Chat? Or something else? I could look into that in the future, it's a good capability to have.
Looks like a mini-app built that does DMs on Nostr? 👍
Blossom is great, what you think of the Media Library I made for Nostria? It's a work-in-progress. Feels great to easily manage and verify mirrors of media across Blossom media servers.
https://blossom.primal.net/492b1f47e1b7f8dab802142011b51a7d3b89366057019cd095f8655b601939ff.mp4
As I am working on sync of User Relay lists (kind 10002) to the Discovery Relay, and then looking at the resulting database, I think it's obvious and clear that going the route of backwards compatibility with Following list (kind 3) is not sensible.
Though user experience is important and having a portion of your following list not accessible is not ideal either, so I'll do a compromise: If there is already User Relay stored, the Discovery Relay will not accept kind 3.
Hopefully all Nostr apps will migrate the users towards a better future, where everyone use Relay Lists and support for kind 3 can be deprecated for getting user relays.
Quick validation shows that average kind 3 is 24.75 KB, while kind 10002 is usually always below 1KB.
With 1KB pr. user, it only takes 1GB for a million users.
Nostrdotband reports almost 43 million known pubkeys now. That means a total of 50GB is plenty enough to keep relay lists for all current accounts (a lot of those are spam and will likely never have any relay list).
What is interesting though, is checking with our competitors:
Mastodon has 10 million
Bluesky has 36 million
X has 650 million
"500GB should be enough for everyone" - last famous words.
I just wrote and published my latest post on Scaling Nostr, introducing Nostria — Your Social Network.
I'll do my best to work hard and make this a reality. Much has already been done, but a lot more to be built.
https://medium.com/@sondreb/nostria-your-social-network-9ece58118061
How Nostria works or investment using Angor? I recorded a video that shows how to use Angor: https://youtu.be/AsPuEoy8fWc
Nostria is a work-in-progress still, it's accessible from the website and have some good features, but it's not a fully featured Nostr client just yet.
The Pre-Seed Funding Round for Nostria is now live!
We are proud to have published the Pre-Seed Funding Round for Nostria on Angor. This is a peer to peer decentralized funding platform built on Bitcoin and Nostr, which we are using to raise funding to complete the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) for Nostria.
Learn more on our Funding page, including watching our videos: https://www.nostria.app/funding
Please consider joining our Pre-Seed Funding Round to complete the Nostria MVP!
My goal is to help Nostr increase the competition against centralized social media and help grow the user base to new heights.
We will have success, the only question remaining is how big our success will be ❤️
At Nostria we will help Nostr scale globally, enabling great user experience from anywhere.
Works on Primal 👍I checked the event source and I get 404 of the original photo, yet client is able to discover it on your registered media server.
Did some research on the columns widths on various social media apps:
Primal is 640 pixels.
X is 600.
FB is 680
Bluesky is 600 (lots of margin, horrible little space for content)
Threads is 640
Mastodon is 600
I'll go with 680 on Nostria, even though I'd much rather have more.
I tend to say that the least productive people use Linux, mildly productive use Mac and productive people use Windows. There are just very few hassles with Windows anymore, the others I spend time daily just fighting the OS while I want to do something productive.
Then again, the more isolated a user's data is on their user relays, the better. So having the badge definition on the receivers relays will be the best. Nostr clients could grab the badge definition when rendering and re-publish to their own relays if it's missing. This is probably the better option.