Would love to see DVM for onboarding. Instead of having a dev pick the top accounts to follow, outsource it to DVM. Click on some interesting topics or people I like and have the DVM spit out a list of accounts to follow.

Yes that would be great, visible to people and easy to direct them to the supported marketplaces by helping listing the respective relays in the clients.

I also hope to see a comprehensive list of relays of what they advertise as spam filters. It took a random post of a relay owner for me to get their policies based either on repetitive messages, npubs or IPs. It is up to the relays to do so and naturally people would like to know how's that being handled so if there is a way to include that in the relay info, it's def a point of interest.

When I was starting on #nostr there was this small enterpreneur who was trying to advertise their merch to people directly on here 5-6 months ago. They shared their frustration about how to do so effectively, and since it was about expiring food items I suggested back then to them to use nostr.watch and connect to more local to their location relays and there may be a better success with advertising to people who use those and actually purchase (ln bits was still in beta).

#zapvertisement may work to some extent globally, however a future list of relays that support or direct to specific (local or not) communities and marketplaces(nip15) maybe something a lot of people including me may like to see.

A list of relays that support marketplaces would be great both for merchants and customers and would be good to see such a relay-list when gets there, so this project has potential 🤙

Hey guys,

I've been quiet lately... I've been working on something big. In the past 2 weeks there have been 9539 new lines of code added to damus, 2928 removed, 279 files changed. I've rewritten much of the codebase in preparation for the nostrdb integration.

## nostrdb

What is nostrdb? nostrdb is an integrated relay within damus, with the same design as strfry, but slightly different to support embedding into nostr apps. This will be the heart of Damus apps going forward, including notedeck and other future microapps. Think of it as a kind of development kit but with an embedded database and query capabilities. I didn't want to have to recreate all of the same querying, caching, and parsing code when building new apps, nostrdb will solve all of the painful and slow parts. nostr seems simple but if you want a fully working app it is pretty complicated, especially if you want it to be fast and sync efficiently.

### Goals

* be the best and most efficient at querying, syncing and storing nostr notes

* enable direct mapping of notes into application code without any serialization overhead

* provide advanced syncing capabilities such as negentropy, which allows us to only query stuff we don't have

* be as portable as possible. nostrdb is a C library that you can embed into basically anything.

* full relay filter support

* full text search

### Benefits

* full note verification

* more efficient de-duplication before we begin processing events off the wire

* set-reconciliation based syncing (negentropy) drastically reduces bandwidth usage and latency

* iteration on future nostr apps will be quicker (android, desktop, etc)

* features like ghost mode, account switching, etc will be much more efficient as you will be able to quickly switch between notes that are cached locally

* much smaller memory footprint due to optimized in-memory note format, which in turn improves cpu-cache efficiency

* much better profile and note searching

So that's what I've been working on in the past two weeks. On to what else is new in this release:

## Multi reactions!

Suhail did an amazing job at adding multiple reaction support. All you need to do is long-press the Shaka button to show different options. You can customize these in settings as well

## New onboarding features

Damus will now suggest people to follow when you first enter the app, this is the first of many onboarding improvements coming soon. Thank Klabo for this one!

That's all for now! Please test thoroughly and let me know if you run into any issues. You likely will since the entire codebase has been changed, and I probably broke something.

Until next time 🫡

this is a feature i've wanted to add for many moons. i think we could easily just add the relay.nostrplebs.com relay by default and then give people maybe 2 fields to add their own relays?

This is exactly what I was hoping for! Thanks for putting it together!

Do you know if there is an option to edit your post once it’s been published?

habla.news is probably the best-looking app on Nostr so far. I mean, look at this; it feels super premium.

If you haven't tried it yet, you should definitely check it out. It also comes by default with NostrNet.work

Is this a standalone relay or a service that sets one up?

I’ve been thinking about building relays (ideally sustainable paid options). Hit me up if this would be of use to you

That’s a brilliant idea!

I think that would also be a solution to retaining the intimate community feeling we have now while adoption increases

I think there are a few people that are trying to implement the SimpleX idea as Nostr DMs. That would be good

I’m with you though, Nostr is superior to everything else I have used. I just wish it was easier to find people to interact with

Is anyone producing nostr development tutorials or courses?