I don't want to pay for a subscription to use Nostr, it means handing over identity and financial metadata as a minimum, many people come to nostr to avoid just that crap but also so we are not dependent on 'entrepreneurs' 'monetising our speech. That isn't freedom. Capitalists hoping to make a quick bitcoin buck from Nostr are the problem not the solution. What if nostr ISN'T meant to be profitable. It needs to be run with little or no finance. Or it isn't worth much more than paying musk for twitter

Nostr is a great protocol, sadly most devs in the community are more obsessed with finding a way to use it to make money with bitcoin than anything else Nostr might have to offer. What if Nostr won't make anybody rich? Well, its going to go nowhere as almost all the devs are wannabe billionaire CEOs who talk the talk of creating freedom, and free software but don't have the imagination to understand why that actually matters let alone to want it.

My gawd this sounds shit. Nostr is doomed if the brightest minds working on it have no new ideas.

Agree, except it is critical mass not monetisation that matters. Free, non-profit, open source community coded nostr is the only social network that can offer an alternative to centralised systems like twitter. Money corrupts absolutely. It will corrupt the code. It will corrupt the ethos. it will corrupt the entire point of nostr.

One client will ALWAYS dominate. That applies to almost all competing software ever made.

If nostr isnt free, open , easy to use and NOT FOR PROFIT or self hosted then it isn't really offering anything Elon Musk isn't. There were many twitter alternatives that failed because nobody was on there. Nostr still has that latter problem but being open, free and censorship free might swing it. Paid relays remove any real world advantage.

nobody wants to hand out their payment details, especially to an unknown server on a little used network.

nobody (well, almost nobody) wants to pay a centralised authority to use social media, those that do already pay Elon Musk. Nostr is losing its mojo because its incompatible with capitalist greed.

my bad.

Ah 'bottom sheet' that was the terminology I was looking for. Glad its staying.

Light version. I like the fact i don't have to open posts in new tabs so I don't lose my place in the time lime, I have never seen this feature of opening windows within windows anywhere , many other websites and apps could benefit from this. Its simple but brilliant and a game changer for people like me who have to have a gazillion tabs open at once terrified of losing my place when surfing. Honestly there is nothing I would change about coracle (except copy text is difficult) the fonts and colours are good too., easy on the eye. And the relay lights/icons are super useful. Thanks for your efforts.

it doesnt solve the problem of Nostr being flooded with fake opinions : people get zapped by those who have the money to buy influence. Thats the future of nostr. Its a network where those who have money (esp powerful coprs and billionaires) can ensure the opinions of the public can be bought one by one, organically and annonymously. It doesnt matter hoe many zaps a post gets, what matters is WHO zapped the post and WHY. And all we can say about that is that of its in the interests of rich and powerful, THEY WILL be zapping the most.

Aren't they just like twitter lists? What am I missing?

Please don't. I love it as it is.

Monero was one of the early alt currencies. Yet none of the core Bitcoin devs have made any effort to make Bitcoin private. They won't acknowledge fungibility is an issue. Nostr devs are the same, pushing lightning is making the privacy issue even worse. They are so invested in Bitcoin they won't even talk about the privacy issue yet continue shouting 'freedom tech' every second post. Its just weird. None of the other issues with crypto: security, key handing quantum computing are much of a threat to its future than the fungibility issue . Bitcoin is about to be made utterly useless to the majority of people who operate within the law. The fungibility issue will see its total and permanent collapse in the next few years. Bitcoin is no threat to CBDCs , it shares its worse property: total control of who can and cannot spend where and when by state or corporate bad actors.

The lightning network does not fix bitcoins fungability. It actually makes it even worse. Alby etc are all tied to email addresses etc The lack of fungability in bitcoin will make it worthless in the coming years for anyone except the elite who are beyond the law (in the same way fiat allows them avoid tax but the rest cannot) . Every bitcoin maxamilist knows this by now, which means every one of them is a scammer trying to push up the price before cashing out.

Bitcoin is the least private form of money invented, even fiat has more privacy. If the govnt wanted to stop tax evasion there is no better tool than Bitcoin. Every coin is traceable. Easily too. Even CBDCs are not being implemented for large store of values (to protect the super rich of course) - current proposals will have CBDCs capped at 20k per individual

Monero already solved the privacy problem. There's no more work to do. Everything else is just lies and marketing by bitcoin holders hoping to get rich from the ignorance of others. Bitcoiners are holding back decentralised private money without writing a single line of code.

Is a web only version of SimpleX on the cards so it can be run in a browser or is that not even possible ?

Bitcoin Bros don't want to know this truth. Bitcoin is public. The blockchain is monitored. You can't hide easily. If the feds want to criminalise it they can and they will. Cash will be easier, hide under your mattress with your now useless crypto keys!