Shill a nostr client most people don't know about: 👇

Productive Sunday so far.

Static landing page for website ✅

Added NIP-05 verification to the site ✅

Adjusted some Haven relay settings to help with rate-limit errors ✅🤞

Making a loaf of bread ✅

Clear blue skies. No wind. Warm sun.

Can't get over how many nice days we are having 🌞

I was initially confused by the idea of microapps, because all examples I heard were about social media use case - "edit profile", "edit contact list", "edit relays" etc.

But think about this: we can have nostr events for _any_ data type. Which means _any_ app could be a Nostr app.

Why would you want to make all apps work over Nostr? Because Nostr is the infrastructure for an app ecosystem, much better than the dominant ones like Android/iOS.

- You have an open "cloud database" with a standard API

- You have authenticity and tamper-proof of all events (documents, files, records)

- You have well defined data types (event kinds)

- You have a decentralized monetization (LN)

- You have web of trust as a potential solution to app safety issues

- You have shared open network effect for the benefit of any new app

None of the existing app platforms offers anything like this.

Nostr as Twitter alternative is fun. Nostr as iOS alternative is crazy fun!

Tell a random app dev that Nostr is a Twitter replacement, and they'll probably yawn. Tell them it's a new app platform, and they'll start paying attention.

We win the devs - Nostr wins. Right?

FIFO Sydney for cheatcode.co.uk panel: really disappointed I couldn't do the whole thing.

Hope this gave people a taste of Bitcoin developer thinking, at least!

Stocked the fridge, cooked some lunch, walked the dog, made a meal plan, filled up freezer... Packed a bag... Drove the airport

Finally getting some breathing space to consider how epic it is to be going to Sydney and attending Cheatcode

Dad mode > MC mode

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If you run a relay others can use, isn’t there a concern that unwanted (even illicit) content could be stored on your server?

This is great. Thanks for sharing!

Authoritative servers (platforms) are nice because supposedly they have a bunch of advantages.

One such advantage is that they provide things like ‘global search’ and sensible like and follow counts, as opposed to something like Nostr where search sucks and likes and follows may as well be meaningless given how trivial sybil attacks are.

Somehow we believe this yet... You can buy likes and followers for these platforms, and it happens all the time. At least you can find everything that is on there, which is true, but also the point; you only see that is on THERE. Say you have a tweet, and its very popular. You can see all the tweets that are in response; but what a search function on a platform wont show you is all the conversations that happen in response to that tweet on forums and public chats elsewhere. The status quo already is chaos, and always will be.

The name of the game is providing sufficient order. The current platforms did that, their order is ‘sufficient’, perhaps by lack of viable alternative. And frankly, whatever order that exists on Nostr currently, is by lack of attack. But the thesis/belief behind Nostr is that whatever spam or sybil nightmares we will face, they can be mitigated. By means of trusted absolutes from authoritative servers and recommended follow and block-lists, an option that is still open to us; or by fancy WoT where you take an explicit probabilistic approach to glean signal from the endless noise. Or a combination of the two.

A.I. perhaps above all constitutes automated quality noise generation; as a result the noise floor increases and determining signal gets harder. Chaos is increasing, and the only direction platforms have is to become more totalitarian; increase barriers of entry by demanding more information and control, to keep their pretense of order alive. I don't expect the masses would reject this trend, and suspect they will go along; how ever many people these platforms will marginalize, that subsequently may find a home via Nostr, wont be what will win it for us (albeit enough reason to exist in the first place).

If we win, we will win because we are more flexible in dealing with the problems at hand.

Thanks, this is great!

Considered posting this on stacker.news

You understand relays? 😂

GM

Packing and probate are the jobs for today.

How's your day coming along?

Any DB is fine. Nostr content is just a text string. And some text meta data.

Depends on your use case really. mongo should be a decent choice. sqlite for small things.

Nostr should not be used as a database, but everyone does is. Because it's convenient. But you end up hitting walls. Like no real indexes, or query language, no ability to do large follow lists, AND/OR facilities, joins, secondary keys, composite indexes etc.

You might want to have a look at #ditto which is the first relay to have a modern database. Nostr as a DB is 50 year old technology.

Any DB is fine. Nostr content is just a text string. And some text meta data.

Depends on your use case really. mongo should be a decent choice. sqlite for small things.

Nostr should not be used as a database, but everyone does is. Because it's convenient. But you end up hitting walls. Like no real indexes, or query language, no ability to do large follow lists, AND/OR facilities, joins, secondary keys, composite indexes etc.

You might want to have a look at #ditto which is the first relay to have a modern database. Nostr as a DB is 50 year old technology.

Nostr super power is relaying between devices. I've been thinking on places where the data just needs to transit, not persist -

Yesterday was thinking about copy-paste/clipboard apps. Copy on one device and paste on another. There are open source multiplatform clipboard apps which could enhanced in this way.

Any of yall have ideas of which project to start with?

Drupal, openoffice, jitsi, owncloud come to mind, but maybe better to start small?