That's a good one, you should follow it!
RE https://twitter.com/BITCOIN_ZAPATA/status/1650946433523257344: 80k active users could easily mean 2m total - 30 day retention is around 1%. But I agree, most of 2m are fake/bots.
I recently realized that due to client-side NIP-42 support we can now make a paid version of our relay too. Thank you for advancing this feature!
Update in Nostr.Band.
If you enjoyed the 'trending today' section on the homepage, you might now view what was trending on any other day too: https://nostr.band/trending/profiles
It's in the 'Top' menu in the header. Works for people, posts, images, video and audio.
Might be useful if you've been away from Nostr for a couple of days and would like to catch up.
I don't think these features require ChatGPT specifically, and I'm not sure ChatGPT could point you to specific notes - it could probably summarize stuff or answer questions. But I've never used it, so it's just a speculation.
Besides, people are quite hostile to algorithms here, and ChatGPT-based algo should totally freak everyone out :)
Technically because most clients don't have that UI.
But practically, how would you choose? All relays are same from users' perspective, there needs to be a much richer UI and much more info provided by relays about what the relays' 'topics' are, what it's policies are, what is or isn't allowed, etc.
Besides, no relay is doing any real moderation, because there are no tools, and so even if someone wanted to run a topical relay, it would be hard to enforce the content policy that relay wants to have. Which makes choosing a relay somewhat meaningless, even if you could do that.
Thank you for your perspective.
On nostr there are also relays, many people wish relays to become the topical hubs. Problem is that clients don't allow users to choose where the posted note is published, which means it's distributed to some semi-random selection of relays w/o any consideration of the relays' rules. And relays don't have good tools to moderate/curate the notes they receive.
As for the groups - if a group is open then it's equivalent to a hashtag. If it's closed then... you kind of get the same question of 'how to moderate this thing', it needs to be supported at the protocol level, and there should be admins willing to do that.
I'm excited about lists (NIP-51), and emerging apps like listr.lol. I'd say you could create custom lists and then let people subscribe to them (when that's supported on the clients), this way people would create custom lists of profiles and clients could suggest the most popular lists for new users. This seems like the simplest way to enable crowd-sourced creation of custom feeds without centralization, algorithm, or huge resource requirements.
I've set up one-click zaps on Snort and it's awesome!
What's even cooler is that I've set up a 10% donation to Snort itself on every Zap (it's in the settings).
This way I can support both the content creators and the client in just one click!
Shocked how little people know about this feature and how underutilized it is. Zap splits seem to me like the best way to support the ecosystem.
Nostr.Watch has it for relays, but not for clients. Could be useful indeed.
But now under my profile on listr I see all lists rendered several times. Even if I log out. But it's all fine in an incognito window. So maybe something was stored in the local browser db and wasn't properly purged?...
I agree, it seems like someone who was abusing the network just found more fun stuff to do for now. But they will come back, of course.
It's not naming problem, it's productivity problem.
nostr:note14u4gthmlf23czvsnuerwz4ct8cpptx29x7m8vnrhthzec6w55dgsx2wv57Created this new graph just for you:
https://stats.nostr.band/#total_zap_amount
The truth is indeed in the middle, our stats say it's 6.7BTC.
It seems like primal doesn't filter fake or invalid zaps, and zapalytics simply has 2x less zaps in their db (300k) then we do (600k).
Spam has gone to practically zero this last week, I wonder why. Either all relays are doing a perfect job, or spammers took a break.
RE https://twitter.com/decensorednews/status/1650599107679903744: That's the same account, it seems like redirection from http://nostr.band to Damus didn't work properly. Will look into that.
I need more people to add to this list; nostr:npub1fnvppxw0nl67rwcd4cu4ne9hhc3m8hu4925dwe4k8hvgtvlh2klqgzvd4z is too lonely in it:
'Add' button to edit the list not working yet?
What do you think would make nostr search engine more useful and help with diversification, on top of the primitive keyword search?
RE https://twitter.com/JoeDavison_/status/1627894651121291266: Thank you for covering my work! I love the pip format where I can see what's being discussed.
RE https://twitter.com/JoeDavison_/status/1627894651121291266: Thank you for covering my work! I love the pip format where I can see what's being discussed.
Another spam-free-relay experiment:
wss://relay.nostr.band/trusted
This endpoint (with /trusted path) has all the nostr data from all relays, but it hides all posts and profiles that have low trust rank, unless you specifically ask for them by id or pubkey.
In case of a spam attack on the network you can remove 'read' permissions from all other relays (or click 'disconnect' if your client allows that), and leave 'read' for this relay, and have content from all the network visible, except for spam. When attack is over - re-activate read permissions or re-connect to other relays.
Trust rank is an internal metric similar to PageRank. The upside of it is that it's very robust against sybil attacks, i.e. bots that interact with themselves to pump their likes/follows/vanity metrics gain nothing since only interactions from broader network would count.
The downside of using trust rank for spam-filtering is that new blank accounts that haven't had any interaction from trusted accounts will not be visible, so you won't be able to see and greet new nostr users.
The relay is free for now. Please let me know what you think of this approach.