The Eminence of Shadow is a fucking charcuterie board of an #anime. Side note, that feeling when you manage to correctly spell a word you've never seen written before the first time.

Hello, #nostr. I always hear people saying, in terms of nostr's popularity, "gradually, then suddenly". But I have to ask, how long does that take? Days, months, years, generations? How quick is "suddenly"? I sure as hell don't have the answer, and I wonder if the people repeating this have anything that resembles an idea on it. I think there comes a point where this attempt to inspire confidence in the movement as a whole becomes nothing more than just another set of buzzwords. I do think that nostr is an example of a path forward. I want it to succeed. I want it to flourish. But I also understand that nostr is up against the juggernauts of social media. I understand that the underlying technology (cryptography) that nostr and related things are built upon are poisoned wells. I understand that nostr may end up flopping and remain a super niche platform. I think it's important that the devs working on this project understand that and not just ignore that reality. But what do I know, I'm not swimming in the crypto lake. I'm just at a park near the water's edge looking out. (Written as part of my #challenge.)

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Do I think that #nostr will still be around after 5 years? Yes. Will it be around at the scale and scope that people want? No. As it stands X still has such a massive pull. I've seen so many people that say they are going to abandon X for another platform, only for them to be back to business as usual a few short days later. Nostr has NOT been able to capitalize on the attempts of a mass exodus whenever X fucks up. Don't get me wrong, I think there are a number of things nostr does right and a number of things that it gets wrong.

Written as part of my #challenge.

"Also these relays, clients etc that offer nip-5 to anyone willing to pay for it basically makes it meaningless."

That right there has always been my biggest problem with NIP-05. My understanding of what NIP-05 was meant to represent was ALWAYS old-school Twitter verification. But people who hand out these free addresses keep saying no it's not for verification but it's meant to be a Human-Readable Identifier like an email address or any other user@domain identifier. And because that mindset is so prevalent, that's what the NIP has morphed into.

If I'm understanding this correctly, is this to be able to search for people based on what name they've put in their profile without the need for a NIP-05 address?

I am going to #challenge myself in the month of September to post something every day here on #nostr as well as #twitter #bluesky and #mastodon the four "microblogging" sites that I use. (And before anyone bitches, I know "microblogging" isn't nostr's only use. It's the only thing I currently use it for so please cut me some slack. I plan on posting my thoughts about it later.)

Some days it'll be the same thing on all four networks, and other days it'll be completely different. Hopefully, I can manage to stick with this for the entire month. Wish me luck.

Yeah, I see it now.

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Now make caching servers optional.

I am the furthest thing from a developer but I do wonder if this is a dumb idea or not:

As #nostr becomes more popular we will probably see, more than we already have, single-purpose clients i.e. "Twitter" clients, traditional blogging clients, "YouTube" clients, "Twitch" clients, etc. What if we, the nostr community, fleshed out these roles further? Whether it be completely new NIPs or adding new functionality to existing NIPs. I'm personally thinking along the lines of content-specific kinds based on roles like the examples above. Then expand the follows list to allow tagging what kinds you follow from any given pubkey. Finally encourage clients to filter what follows they show and what notes they show based on what kind of note that app wants to use. You could still have clients that don't filter at all and just show everything regardless of the kind.

For example, "Twitter" uses kind A notes, "Wordpress" uses kind B notes, and "Youtube" uses kind C notes for video posts and kind D notes for the comment section. So if I follow pubkey A on "Twitter" it tags the entry in my follows list with a "kind A" tag in my follows list. So if I go to "Youtube" it wouldn't show me as following the same pubkey because the follow list entry isn't tagged with kind C and kind D. And if I chose to follow them on "Youtube" it would add the kind C and kind D tags.

Is nsecbunker the only NIP-46 implementation that coracle supports? #asknostr

#nostr clients need to work on off-site embeds of notes.

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There sadly doesn't seem to be a Gui version of the desktop client for Windows. Otherwise, I'd be using it.

I already use a NIP-07 extension (Alby) to log in with my lone npub. But I'm wondering if I should move towards a NIP-46 solution so I can manage multiple npubs when I choose to do so? And if yes, what would be a good lightweight solution I could run locally on my Windows computer? #asknostr

Yep. At this point, on the off chance I manage to convert people over to nostr, I will tell them to just ignore NIP-05.

That's the thing, my understanding of what NIP-05 is supposed to do has been rendered mostly useless because there are so many services, and some clients, that offer a free NIP-05 address and pass it off as being a simple Human-Readable Identifier. If I'm understanding NIP-01 correctly, a kind 0 note already provides an HRI that clients can use for search queries. So it seems to me that people are completely misunderstanding what NIP-05 is meant to accomplish. Then again I could be 100% wrong here.

Ah ok! I'm just trying to figure out why people are pushing so hard to say that NIP-05 isn't a form of Twitter-like verification. Because my understanding of NIP-05 is that you're supposed to use a domain that you own and have direct control over, the latter point at an absolute bare minimum, and thus are verified.