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Christopher
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become ungovernable.
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Can confirm.

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Good grief. You almost gave me a heart attack until I realized the date.

Warning: this is a polemical note.

I understand that it is not easy to make a client for Nostr.

Too many variables, too many NIPs, too much everything.

So far I've tried everything:

from mobile clients

to desktop ones

to browser clients

to factotum ones

to specific ones...

but they all have one thing in common: they never work well.

They are all full of merits, but equally full of flaws.

I'm constantly jumping from one to another in hopes of finding the ultimate one, but still nothing.

The only one that for obvious reasons I have not been able to try is Damus, because I don't have an iPhone.

Tomorrow marks one year that I've been here, and I was honestly hoping in all this time to find a client to recommend to anyone I talk to about Nostr, but it's impossible.

Primal is beautiful, but after a year it still has no internal translator whatsoever.

Amethyst is the one I use the most ever, but its interface is confusing in so many ways and some features are almost hidden, when something new comes out and I go to read the changelog I get a headache.

Snort and Iris, they are great, but the web app version is unmanageable.

Coracle has so many nice features, but like Amethyst it has a confusing interface.

Satellite.earth ditto.

Then there is the Swiss army knife of nostr clients, namely Nostrudel. Also super great with dozens of features, but it takes an engineering degree to use it and the interface is confusing and unattractive.

I know, developers do what they can, many do it practically for free, but there is no use complaining that there are few of us on Nostr, that no one comes here.

Nostr is still a place for geeks, for normies it's not time yet.

Sorry to vent, it's a gray day, that's the way it is today.

I love you all.

For what it’s worth - it looks like nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s will be releasing an Android version of nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 soon - so you’ll be able to try out that client (which is currently my favorite, since it very much resembles the Twitter/X user experience without the spammy ads, censorship and stupid algos).

What’s the split? Do I need to do anything to activate splitting with nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 or can I simply zap away using the Damus zap button?

So basic introduction for anyone interested: I am a gray hat hacker and cybersecurity awareness activist who likes to stir up privacy-centered networks. I have probably met some of you before.

I actually came here looking for a challenge. I've been lurking around here in some form or another for about 4 months now, playing with different clients and tools, even running my own testnet (3 stirfry relays on a VLAN). Mostly I have been focused on the community and how people use different clients. I've been playing with some good open source tools and getting an understanding of how to interact with relays.

Personally I'm not all that into Bitcoin, but I do have a whole BTC in cold storage so I guess I've got that going for me. This whole lightning thing is new to me, I don't really ever spend Bitcoin, and my actual business makes me plenty of fiat.

So far I am impressed with the community. A little too wild-west in some areas since there's hardly any moderation tools, and the community isn't quite interested in the same things that I am, but I do see a lot of advocacy for privacy and digital freedom, and I like that.

But the whole system here is, regrettably, broken. The promises made about Nostr don't live up to reality. A network like this has the potential to become so much more, but there is a lot to lose if it is done wrong.

I intend to help expose these problems. Expect me here for a while. There are a lot of vectors for attack, and I plan to give them all visibility.

Nostr devs, please pay attention. With no centralized network development, all of you are responsible for fixing these issues.

Unsure about what you mean with “it’s regrettably broken”. Would love to hear more on this. Thanks to nostr:npub1san22nhe59ct8pstcehav4dtkf94lkn46ltl7d30g3zzl00tg7ussgqjdd for reposting.

Exactly. Maybe there is a market to pay someone to archive all your tweets (including other nostriches comments on them). At ~60 GB a month (with the current nostr usage) shit adds up quickly.

They probably will be for the free relays. My db is growing by more than 2GB a day currently.

Ah sorry. Must’ve gotten you mixed up with "Commissario Morino". He was not happy about that. Was a pain to recover the funds. I only run a small BTCPay server CLN these days with about 4 channels… It’s on 24/7 so I can skip the custodial part.

But would totally recommend going custodial for less than 100 bucks of funds for the convenience.