Altough I am open minded and support innovation, especially communities contributing and enhancing a project,

I still have a very strong stance on almost all Altcoins which are almost all shitcoins.

Ethereum specially.

No warnings about the centralized aspects of its protocol. An unfair issuance of coins, mainly directed and owned and influenced, by the "developer" for extra benefit. They are led by greed.

There simply is no second best. All the attempts on making it "better" actually put their project in danger, and all projects are bound to be corrupted by powerful lobbyists.

Some crypto projects might be used for different purpose then money, but this makes it less effective.

A few days ago, I found myself browsing one of those "modern" websites. Those eyecandy-rich but content-lean websites that try to be sleek with animations and fading text. I think they're trying to make it look and feel like a magazine but I don't think they're doing a goob job of it.

I grew up during the period between the internet becoming "the information superhighway" and just before social media hit mass adoption. During that time, "getting online" can be prohibitively expensive and as a result, not a lot of people did.

Back then, magazines were my internet. They became my portal to "what's happening" in the things that I'm interested in. They're often content, and ad, rich and they pack a variety of information about slightly tangential things that you still might find interesting.

I was and am still amazed at how efficient they were with page space and how they can make it look seamless and easy to read. Maybe it's a characteristic of the medium but I think it's a bit of a fool's errand to make the computer screen behave like a magazine.

Fancy eyecandy can look impressive but they don't really last beyond first impressions. I don't think anyone would like going through that fading scrollthrough text more than once.

In my opinion, if there's anything to get from late 90s magazines it is not that your webpage should look and feel like a magazine but rather to think about your medium and find a way to make the best use out of it.

Both. I’ve never liked markdown - probably because I don’t code so not used to typing everything out. Visual editing feels smoother.

Various editors in general seem to have styling issues when writing. Maybe people don’t notice it but I do.

As for clients, have not seen any that work smooth yet.

Someone should build a medium-like writing experience client that does nothing but publish long form content. I wouldn’t mind paying per publisher article.

Not a fan of markdown :(

Hey, thanks for reading. I think it's possible to do something like this on Nostr. I'm not that well-versed with the protocol but it looks like you can do it either through the client or the relay.

Adding a small, local cache inside a client could make it more resilient and delay-tolerant. That could help in catching any posts that you might have sent offline and the client can just rebroadcast the contents of its cache once it's back on the network.

I think a more interesting, and bodgy, approach is having a private relay talking to a public-facing one. The public relay can take any messages from a specific npub key and store it until the private relay requests for it and vice versa. At that point, you're basically redoing POP3/SMTP though. It's interesting to think about that though.

want to build this too

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My internet went down today. But despite that, I can still write a phlog talking about it and I can be assured that once I have my internet connection back, that the processes that I have put in place will kick in and automatically update my gopherhole. I think that's a comforting thought to have, that I have built a mostly delay-tolerant system that I can reliably rely on all situations.

I personally think that having this kind of mentality is imperative nowadays. I think having as much of the things that you have to be not reliant on other people and processes are a much better solution. For example, if you are using a platform like Medium to compose and publish your blogs then you would be helpless and cut-off if you can't access their website.

> It might not be intuitive or it might even require you to `*gasp*` read a manual. But the payoff is incredible.

Contrast that to just having your own local copy of your website and you just periodically update it through simple terminal commands. It might not be intuitive or it might even require you to `*gasp*` read a manual. But the payoff is incredible. It means that you are not reliant on the infrastructure that other have made and that should those infrastructure prove to be fragile, as is the case today. Then you are not caught helpless and unable to do anything about it.

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Unless you have some private projects that require secrecy, **you should just organize conversations on nostr**.

Smart bootstrapped founders know that one of the best ways to garner attention is by building in public.

By posting on Nostr, you are in essence building in public. This has many benefits:

1. Free marketing for your project

2. Recruit other designers. If they see that there are others, they are more likely to join your cause.

2. Attract talent (people who are interested in the project will likely want to work on it). Find development help.

3. Attract funding (even sats from plebs, bounties on your behalf, etc…)

4. Help nostr grow. By getting outside the siloed communication channels, you help add activity to Nostr. When people see that it’s busy, they are more likely to participate. Nobody wants to use a dead social network (even though nostr is so much more than a social network).

## How to organize on Nostr without channels or groups

A common objective is “but there is not a good client for group chat”.

Nostr IS the group chat. It's just a much larger group. All you need is a way of organizing conversations.

Enter hashtags.

Hashtags allow people to track conversations so you can see if someone is discussing #nostrdesign for example.

“But, I forget to use hashtags!”

Ok, make a SUPER simple client that automatically inserts the hashtag into the message. Hardcode if if you need to for the time being.

Clients like Snort already let you follow hashtags so it’s a matter of bookmarking it and just checking it whenever you’re online.

Don’t want a bloated client? No problem. Clone Snort, remove everything but the posting and reading functionality. Use the client only for posting and for reading that specific hashtag. Congrats, you just created your own public channel! The best part? Everyone can see it without signing up for any siloed platforms.

## Act

Do it now. Close the group and let everyone know you’re using nostr from now on. No excuses, no waiting. Just do it.

It may be hard and painful at first, but you'll get used to it. Who knows, it may be enough motivation to build great clients that do one thing very well.

Let’s go!