PageRank (the google secret sauce from back in the day) using mentions instead of hyperlinks would probably be decently effective. Hashtag spam might become problematic (since you could think of them as keywords, a la the meta field in html), since they cannot be applied invisibly.

Running nightly from source, too hardcore for me.

I am looking forward to the next gossip release, though.

Honestly I just cbfed to get the rust toolchain setup. I'll delay that forever, if possible.

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I'm an idiot full time ® - retard certified

I'm doing signals to producers/consumers that share each ws client. Producers listen for the event arrived signal, consumers verify and save the event, then send the signal.

Just werks because my web framework happens to have signals builtin

I wouldn't say "for" so much as "best suited for"

I think it is a mistake for anyone to use it to build a brand, chiefly. The alternative is something more like email, something mostly for interpersonal communications, less for mass broadcast Tthough mailing lists do exist, and newsletters, I posit they are grafted on, a special use case, not the main one. I think nostr is a really resilient way to do one to a few rather than one to many or one to all style communications.

I'd like to see a nostr future where each relay was more or less independent of the others, or maybe a neighborhood of associated relays, rather than these big, disordered, firhose collections of "PV :shakabra:" positivity posting etc etc

5x5, wondered about that first one. I saw nostril mentioned in with nostcat iirc.

Not that I'm saying you're using it wrong, but I think you might be using it wrong.

Global is fucked forever, and will eventually morph into an algorithmically curated wasteland because the current hellscape was unmanageable, as all social media global/semiglobal feeds seem to.

I think nostr is best suited for you to talk to people you already know, not to build a following out of people who discover you, or vice versa on global.

Build a "good" follower/ing list, which is subject to an unfortunate chicken and egg hump of bootsrapping a followed/follower list.

High quality posts are low frequency, you aren't likely to stumble across them on global anyway, as they are badly hurt by poor signal to noise ratios (in which I count antagonistic bitcoin posting, PV posting, jerking off about how nostr is surely going to change the world guys). I trimmed all that out of my feed and even when including replies, I see a few posts per hour max. I think the gossip UX is tailored to this relaxed form of browsing and posting, where there is a clear "I've caught up on and replied to everything in my feed" point. Huge props to its author for this decision, it encourages what I think is a more grounded, less terminally online method of online interaction. It turns nostr into a resilient usenet-style medium (though I am one to talk about usenet, having not been around for that).

All that said, I'd encourage you not to quit using nostr, just to alter your usage patterns and expectations. It shouldn't be used just like how you use twitter, something I think a lot of the slicker more mainstream clients and users are pushing it to be. It is different, and can be in reality different, but the onus is on you, the user, to allow that to happen through your different expectations and use.

Like a bidirectional anus, shitting back and forth, forever

Thanks, I'll be sure to try these out. testing multiple commands has been a chore so far.

A basic nostr client focused on testing relay software against common/mandatory portions of the protocol. I'm tired of doing absolutely everything via websocat to debug, and possibly just too lazy to write unit tests yet

What are the best practices for relay to relay broadcast of events? do you just code a nostr client process that forwards the message?

not talking in-band like in a cluster of backend nodes streaming messages back and forth, but I haven't found a nip that outlines this. I think it definitely does happen in the wild though.

Go to horny jail

Bad test, no cookie

Web integration is probably a bad idea (for the moment). Technologies that begin merely interfacing with the web, tend to be absorbed and superseded by some web-specific standard.

The web is, in this way, 'embrace extend extinguish:' the technology.

There is a lot of inertia, capital, and existing investment in the web. Until you are at least David, you probably shouldn't go and ask Goliath over for tea.

Best not to invite the web in until you are properly arrayed to defeat it forever.

Oh FUCK it was the fucking kombucha wtf why did I drink an entire piiiiiiiint

Here I sit, broken hearted

Came to shit, only farted

this, but with less irony

It's what happens when everyone views the world as nothing more than a series of transactions. It's a denial of the existence of any metaphysical concepts. They can't understand anything non-(hyper-)rational and thus they pretend such things do not exist. It's reaaaaaally typical among leftish types. Enlightened redditors, so to speak