Why not have it follow the bitcoin paradigm? Services like Umbrel and Start9 make it easy enough to spin up your own node and become sovereign. And for people like my mom, who hold bitcoin but are not technical, I can act as an Uncle Jim and allow her to connect to my node. Are relays that much more complicated?

#[6] working on the relay story. Expect it soon 🤙

I don’t think anyone is ready for a game-changer like this. LFG Will! 🤙

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A message from the NostReport team:

We love the discussions popping up around notifications, tagging, and post length with NostReport. We are a group of plebs that are enthusiastic about Nostr and its potential for changing social networking, its ability to be a vehicle for the value-4-value model and bitcoin adoption, and ultimately its by-design nature that gives us each ownership over our identity and data.

We started NostReport because we saw a need for some way to keep up with the rapid pace of development here. We are early, all of us. As users, client devs, relay operators, nip-05 providers, content hosting providers, and content creators, etc., we are ALL early. In just the last few weeks there have been so many improvements implemented across these segments that it’s very easy to forget how far Nostr has already come.

Regarding NostReport specifically, we had a lengthy discussion amongst our team and we believe it is important to continue giving proper credit and attribution by tagging relevant accounts where appropriate. We will use our best editorial discretion in doing so, but we don’t have any plans to change that approach. We acknowledge that the “earliness” of all of this means not everything works exactly the same as it may if we were on another platform. But we are not on those platforms for a reason, and so we all deal with the growing pains of not yet having features that we wish existed.

Some features we hope to see implemented include the ability to manage notifications, including muting notifications stemming from a specific post/thread. We would also like to see clients truncate longer posts to a certain character count and then giving users the option to “view more.” We have seen this feature on snort.social and believe it is a good way to handle long form posts. Longer form posts also get harder to read with the way some clients auto-refresh their feeds. Even if you click on a post to open it sometimes the client randomly kicks you out of that view and back to the home feed and you lose your place completely. We suggest an option to turn off auto-refresh and give users a way to manually refresh when desired. We would like to see a better way to preview posts and formatting/tagging before publishing. Currently we must DM them to ourselves, which results in even more unwanted notifications for users we tag. We are happy to give feedback or discuss further with any devs that would like more input.

Lastly, we want to reiterate why we’re here. We love Nostr. We want to see it continue to grow and succeed and give everyone back control of their voice and online identity. We appreciate you following NostReport and hope that you’ll continue to give us feedback on how we can improve. Stay classy Nostr. 🤙

It’s a decentralized network. Users such as #[0] are going to find new and innovative ways to use Nostr to communicate and express themselves. We are going to break things and annoy people. It’s up to the relay operators and the clients to innovate and compete with each other to create a better user experience for everyone.

Unfortunately our policy on the Meme of the Day precludes self-entry for consideration in the daily report, but our very own #[0] just dropped this 💣 #[1]

Pura Vida 🤙 📰 ☕️

PV 🤙

We’re flattered that you think we’re a bot, but in reality we’re just a group of fiat miners who are rabid Nostr fans. Thanks for the sats though!

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We agree. A client based solution would be 🔥

Collapsed notes? Threads?

For now try adding the npub without the @

We also have links to old NRs at www.NostReport.com

Stickers… Get your stickers heeeeree!!!!

#[0]

THE NOSTR REPORT

The Great Firewall of China

Feb 2, 2023

Block Height:

774,777

Moscow Time

4,224

⚡/ $

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🎙Quote of the Day🎙️

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#[0] “The whole point of nostr is that it can't be stopped simply by taking an app off the app store.

If the CCP or Charlie Munger want it banned you're probably doing something right.”

#[1]

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🚨Headline Nostr News🚨

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Damus App approval brings on tsunami 🌊 of new users and reaches 56k app store downloads and steadily climbs up charts of most popular app. #[2] #[3]

#[4] notes that most of these users appear to be from China according to his relay data #[5]

Unfortunately, Damus was quickly 👀banned from the China App Store with the Cyberspace Administration of China 👀citing illegal content. Good thing Damus didn’t get put on the China app store on 🍆D-Day🍆.

#[6]

Even though Damus App is now banned in China, it appears that some relays are still able to service Chinese clients.

#[7]

Speaking of relays, the surge in popularity of nostr has caused relays to be overwhelmed with record number of clients connecting. Eden relays hit with 800k new requests from China and 600k from US clients. Cameri and FiatJaf think scaling horizontally is the only solution.

#[8]

#[9] reminds us that GitHub is a centralized service subject to US sanctions and can be blocked by the Great Firewall, increasing the utility for a Nostr GitHub replacement. FOSS is incredible but needs to be hosted on a decentralized service to reach its full potential.

#[10]

#[11] poses the question: “are ordinals an ⚔️attack⚔️ on #Bitcoin?” Luxor mining admits to stealing pool contributors hash in order to pull off the 4MB jpeg stunt with Udi and Eric Wahl.

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🏝️Nostrica Update🏝️

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#[14] notes that 360 virtual participants have signed up so far!

#[15]

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🖥️nostr Tech🖥️

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#[16] and #[17] collaborate on wss://puravida.nostr.land, the first ♀️female-run♀️ paid relay, to the family of nostr.land relays!

#[18]

#[19] Damus is 2nd most popular social network app in Hong Kong on the App Store.

#[20]

#[21] ⚠️EU bans Linux OS⚠️!!

#[22]

#[23] reiterates the “dumb relay” / “smart client” ethos of nostr and says that clients should be able to find people on different relays.

#[24]

#[25] NVK reports stats from BRB.io

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#[27] Terry Yiu implores developers to use open source translators rather than centralized platforms like Google Translate.

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#[29] The Rise of Paid Nostr Relays

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⚡nostr Business⚡

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#[31] 🤡⚠️Charlie Munger (99) gives policy and investing advice⚠️🤡.

#[32]

#[33] Don’t get scammed by Damus tokens being sold on shitcoin exchanges.

#[34]

#[35] ⚡Zeus⚡ wallet has POS at Pubkey bar in 🗽NYC🗽 all “yous” NYC nostriches should check it out. https://pubkey.bar/

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🎩nostr Lifestyle🎩

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#[37] becomes a 📖book🔥 burner and claims books are useless because all knowledge comes from wisdom which is learned in the streets. Wu Tang Clan was not available for comment.

#[38]

#[39] has some deep thoughts on horizontal and vertical scaling issues of relays running the Nostr protocol.

#[40]

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🩺Nostr Health of the Network🩺

pubkeys

403,092

events

1,704,223

relays

272

Source nostr.io/stats

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🔥🔥Meme of the Day🔥🔥

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#[41] Morpheus knows You can’t ban nostr 🟣💊!

#[42]

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Stay Classy Nostr.

Notice any new changes?

What is social media? #[0]

To Bitcoiners, perhaps social media is more trivial than money, because money is our primary method of assigning, storing, and transacting in value. With the development of the nostr protocol, social media now allows us to connect and transact messages freely, and also to establish value, without censorship from a central authority.

Social media is a way to create, exchange, and disseminate information. It's a place to find a broader network of peers. Social media is a way to reach audience. And until recently, many thought that social media allowed for freedom of speech. Why is freedom of speech sacred, also when transacting online? Isn't absolute pseudonymous freedom also harmful when insults, defaming, slander and spam occur freely? The paradigm needs to be rediscovered. The war on fake news has shown us that no one central authority should decide on what is considered truth. We’ve seen this with the publication of the Twitter Files. The reaction to this is to embrace the bare messenger, the algorithmless client, to rid ourselves of the centralized authority who can censor us to their will.

Bitcoin answered the question “What is money?”. Nostr recently answered the question “What is social media?”. How we navigate further will require more discussion, because the problem isn't completely solved. For now, rest assured that with the abundance of nostr clients, there will be competition that allows everyone to answer the question “What is social media?”.

Information is free. Information that is not free is called Bitcoin.

pv nostr ☀️☕️ Don’t get your news just anywhere. Nostr moves fast and #[0] is here to help you keep up. 🤙

Ty ⚡️ 🤙 💜

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