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Kinostr: curated selection of full movies, from famous directors to experimental stuff, some dating back to the Twenties
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Hyeon Seo Lee: the girl that escaped North Korea, hoping she will keep posting!
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Renaud Lifchitz: curated selection of news about cryptography, blockchain, and hacking (mostly in English with some French)
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Ainsley Costello: the most successful singer and songwriter on Nostr, making a living on zaps
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Purrs_for_Her: thoughts and images about FLRs: Female Led Relationships
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Classical Educator: daily short bios of writers, painters, poets, intellectuals, ... Cool pics too.
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Substack’s getting more traction and moving beyond text and newsletters.
https://www.semafor.com/article/10/06/2024/substack-wants-to-do-more-than-just-newsletters
What’s most interesting is why people are moving to or sticking with substack. It’s traffic generation. They’re taking a 10% cut of revenue but they are able to use the platform and network to drive 50% of new subscribers and 30% of new paid subscribers to each substack creator. Sure, creators also need to build traffic, but the power is in the network which grows an audience.
If we are going to see Nostr as a protocol for creators who run a business, we need to make it easier for them to build an audience. That can be algorithims, but it could also be making it easier to recommend good content, share lists, etc…
The other issue we face with creators is that subscriptions are much more valuable to a creator than one off payments. With NWC and wallets we CAN do subscriptions, but we haven’t made it easy and nostr connected the way zaps are.
I totally agree on building more tools, and improving the UI/UX to help creators grow an audience.
However, I'm not sure that the subscription business model is winning. There are more and more signs that users are not willing to pile up subscriptions (streaming services, podcasts, newsletters, ...).
As long as content is not behind a paywall, I welcome all kinds of payments (one-time zap, metered, subscriptions, ...).
After all, Nostr is supposed to be the layer that could power value4value dynamics.
Thanks!
You said work has already been done in this space.
Could you point me to Nostr-based projects addressing the centralization of the current DNS?
Isn't that the case though that most services still require you to pick a password during the signup process?
Afterward you can set up a passkey, but ultimately, you have to keep those passwords somewhere in case you move to a new device. Right?
This is a truly fascinating story: the possible disappearance of the beloved TLD .io because of some geopolitical event.
I do recommend reading it, it's full of tasty details.
However, this article reminded me of when, around 2012, I got excited with Namecoin, a fork of Bitcoin, that aimed to establish .bit as a new TLD outside of the ICANN-regulated DNS.
I immediately purchased the domain clipperz.bit as an uncensorable, decentralized alternative to clipperz.com, the domain I was using back then for Clipperz, the online password manager we built in 2005 on the excitement of running strong cryptography right in the browser (still running and servicing users nowadays).
As you may know, Namecoin failed to gain enough adoption and therefore browser manufacturers did not provide any support to resolve .bit domain names.
Could Nostr succeed where Namecoin failed? Could Nostr become the layer that will eventually make ICANN and national registers irrelevant?
https://every.to/p/the-disappearance-of-an-internet-domain?s=03
Nostr prompted me to redesign my entire online presence:
- Personal website: Built using nostr:npub1pr4du5xl28dy5sh4msz9uddnwxgzupkk4qzjzklv84edc6ruevzqlxmkzp, it aggregates long-form articles published with nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, and it uses a custom domain courtesy of nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy.
- Contact page: While still hosted on Github, it now embeds a contact form created with nostr:npub1qu7dsd44275lms4x9snnwvnnmgx926nsppmr7lcw9dlj36n4fltqgs7p98, an amazing Nostr-based form builder service
- X/Twitter, Facebbok, and LinkedIn: I've pinned posts announcing Nostr as my new home. This is also my advice to you: don't delete your existing social media accounts, keep them active to direct your audience to Nostr.
I forgot the most important thing: thanks to all the amazing developers that made this possible!!!
Nostr prompted me to redesign my entire online presence:
- Personal website: Built using nostr:npub1pr4du5xl28dy5sh4msz9uddnwxgzupkk4qzjzklv84edc6ruevzqlxmkzp, it aggregates long-form articles published with nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, and it uses a custom domain courtesy of nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy.
- Contact page: While still hosted on Github, it now embeds a contact form created with nostr:npub1qu7dsd44275lms4x9snnwvnnmgx926nsppmr7lcw9dlj36n4fltqgs7p98, an amazing Nostr-based form builder service
- X/Twitter, Facebbok, and LinkedIn: I've pinned posts announcing Nostr as my new home. This is also my advice to you: don't delete your existing social media accounts, keep them active to direct your audience to Nostr.
This sounds like a serious threat to the long-term appeal and sustainability of Nostr.
I'm not a developer, hence I ask: could we still reverse course? Is the NUD idea (NIP-071) a viable and effective option to maintain backward compatibility while advancing to new more open design?
/cc nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z, nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
After trying out various Nostr clients, nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg has become my go-to choice, both on the web and as an Android app. However, there are a few features I'd like to see added to enhance my experience. Most notably:
- Note Translations: The ability to translate notes written in languages I don't understand would open up a world of new content.
- Advanced Search: More granular search options, like searching only profile descriptions or limiting results to users I follow, would be helpful.
- Customizable Push Notifications: The ability to tailor notifications, e.g. to receive alerts for DMs and mentions, but not for likes or reposts.
/cc nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr, nostr:npub1zga04e73s7ard4kaektaha9vckdwll3y8auztyhl3uj764ua7vrqc7ppvc
This is great! I would love to see more AI, energy, and art/music content on Nostr
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Glad to see that nostr:npub18nagz6a53yh6d05e8trj487dhvyfhh4qchvsz87jqng4g4zl5tvs825evl is spreading the good word on Reddit as well!
https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1fxg9yo/interesting_accounts_that_are_not_posting_about/
Thanks!
I'll do a bit of exploration in those verticals.
Much much slower than what the video is showing.
1. both on web and Android
2. web on Brave/Ubuntu and Chrome/ChromeOS, Pixel6/Android14
3. using both public relays and a private one hosted on a locally accessible StartOS server
The original Nokia ringtone, known as the Nokia tune, is derived from a piece of solo guitar music called Gran Vals, composed by Francisco Tárrega in 1902.
📹 alexaguitarist
https://t.co/Vfw8PKFV87 https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1843293909918642176/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/_QHsWP3nb8QSHkd8.mp4?tag=12
Unfortunately the copyright protection had already expired when they started using it. 😁
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If you do not want to have only bitcoin and nostr feed see this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1fxg9yo/interesting_accounts_that_are_not_posting_about/
This is a good way to onboarding new people in nostr
Thanks for sharing it here! ❤️
I’m super excited for the next chapter of nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld with Margot at the helm. It will be a return to “progressivism” of old focused on activism, human rights, and a rejection of the current political tribalism and two party war machine that exists today.
Everything Margot talks about and embodies, from occupy to left-anarchism and beyond. It’s exactly what’s needed! Support and encourage her ✨ nostr:note1n5gn7c8ckxy0zasz0mas7hcelsmkrms2ehp7e9h5ww4fg4vnvenqprs0a9
Looking forward to it!
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Is there a nostr application equivalent to discord?
I want to experiment and see if we can recreate the nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha discord community on nostr. TY
Side note: separately great to go hand to hand and attract individuals to nostr but bringing entire communities over could lead to exponential growth.
Side side note: global nostr adoption feels inevitable
Look into Nostr Communities (NIP-072).
A few Nostr clients already support them (Amethyst, https://satellite.earth, ...)
It seems like the perfect project for a blog hosted on Npub.pro.
Write articleson Nostr, publish them automatically on your blog, get zapped to write more, get comments to drive the story! \cc nostr:npub1pr4du5xl28dy5sh4msz9uddnwxgzupkk4qzjzklv84edc6ruevzqlxmkzp
> Computers are copying machines. Information yearns to be free.
It always surprises me how persistent is the idea that you can base
a viable, long-term business on limiting access to information and data.
> People want to support the stuff they love, and they're willing to pay for it. Not all people, but ~4% of them. And that is enough.
May I ask where that 4% figure comes from?
Do you think that ecosystems like Nostr can help popularize the concept of value4value and make that number higher?