SimpleX is based around queues. Instead of pushing everything to a relay and have it stay there forever, you push messages into a queue that eventually gets consumed by the person you’re sending the messages to. They exist on the relay temporarily and they are encrypted. Cool part is that there are no long-term “addresses” or “pubkeys” to send the message to, so spam is much harder.

I think nostr could learn a lot from this protocol, I believe we can use something like this to strengthen use cases on the nostr side. I am building a SimpleX rust library to learn the protocol further, and will be looking into how we can leverage it in our apps.

Doing finishing touches for my book, which is now past all external editing. I'm doing the author's final edit/checkup, cover, getting it into the right format for publication, etc.

Some questions for the community:

-Do you prefer hardcover, paperback, or ebook?

-For hardcover or paperback, do you care about the physical dimensions of a book? eg do you prefer a 5.5"x8.5" thicc book or a 7"x10" thinner book?

-For those that like audio books, would you prefer to read the book physically or electronically rather than listen to it, if it had a lot of images?

I'm going to tell my friends tonight that I'm uninstalling FB Messenger and if they wish to talk to me, they're going to need to install SimpleX 👀 I only keep FB Messenger around for them and I absolutely hate FB using my data. Wish me luck.

gm 🌞🌻 back in the den, preparing fliers for the next conference

A full day with #[0]​. Solid overall. TestFlight is not recommended. There are some scaling issues today. And not the most intuitive onboarding for everyone. Name still reminds everyone of herpes.

All fixable. It’s fast and doesn’t require a phone number or email and I do believe people will eventually see the value of that.

Finally some competition for Signal, and in a permissionless way. And def a solid path so apps don’t have to build their own DM experiences.

Does Fedi chat encrypted ?

The Sovereign Individual Tech Stack:

☁️ Nextcloud

🔐 VaultWarden

🎦 Plex

🔎 Start page

✉️ ProtonMail

⚡Zeus + LN node

🛅 Veracrypt

🗨️ Session & Signal

🫂 Nostr Relay

🦅 Sparrow Wallet + Node

📟 Coldcard

🔒VPN

🐧Linux

And of course, #bitcoin

#grownostr #privacy #lightning #plebchain

It arrived :)