Nostr Web Client

Is there any documentation on how to implement Nostr into an existing website or app, like what Fountain has done?

My wife got on the hook by a scammer today! She’s not a technophobe by any means, so it’s quite unsettling. Here’s what happened…

She received email asking if she would like to be interviewed on a podcast of a well known “influencer”, about her business and her expertise.

Over a series of emails a time gets booked for a Zoom pre-call to go over the schedule for the interview the next day.

Zoom link gets sent, which my wife clicks on, the link does open Zoom application on computer and my wife waits, the application says “host has been notified and will join soon”. She does not enter any login credentials, the application looks to be actual Zoom app.

But after 30 min of waiting, host never joined.

Then she tells me what happened and I investigate, finding out this has happened to others.

I read through the correspondence between her and scammer, first email says they will remunerate her for her time.

For scammer to not get on the call, I’m wondering why they didn’t take the next step? And was the next step to get her on the call and try to somehow get her to divulge her bank details so they can “pay”her? I have previously listened to the nostr:npub1kkexr9d6lgtmd37tuqgqk2gcas79u95vun6qxd77wm6swt70qjnsek7348 social engineering calls, it gives me chills how persuasive they are…

Or have they somehow been able to access the computer in the 30 min she was waiting in the lobby of the call with the application open? I’m 80% sure the application is the real Zoom.

If they did get access to the computer, what could they have gotten, and what should I do from here?

This is a fantastic example where the Nostr Web of Trust would have stopped this in its tracks, as my wife could have checked if the podcast “manager” was indeed connected to the high profile influencer via WOT, which couldn’t be faked.

If we are possibly still vulnerable please advise!

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Derek Ross

I did all that. My issue was I took away too much egg whites and the water was probably too hot. They essentially were 60% cooked yellow balls.

Billy 1y ago

I put them into boiling water and no issue. Egg quality makes a huge difference also.

Billy 1y ago

Is it possible to delete your own note yet on Nostr?

If it’s your own created note, I believe you should be able to edit/delete.

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Gigi

GN

Billy 1y ago

I hear ya! Being luke warm about something won’t get you very far.

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jb55

the most eye opening think I’ve ever experienced design-wise was adding a new note pop-up feature that always popped up at the top of your timeline when you were scrolling, that showed when new notes have arrived.

It did this on every new note in realtime. It would keep popping up over and over, this was so stressful and jarring that it made me realize I have a huge amount of power to cause stress just from small design decisions.

This made me think: there is a large landscape of possible design decisions that can greatly increase or decrease user stress.

One example in damus is that I just show a dot on the home button, but I don’t show the number of new notes. Some people will consider this less helpful, but it’s damus’ way of saying: just chill, there are new notes, don’t worry about how many.

Saving the scroll position is another subtle design choice: it enables a way for people to scroll up to see every note they missed since last session. Is this necessarily a good thing? To me this is stressful, it’s like obsessively making sure I don’t miss any note.

We will still likely add this feature, at least to notedeck/android, but it does have some stress-level difference in the way the app is used.

Something to think about. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Billy 1y ago

Here’s something that stresses me on Damus… when I tap on a note reply, to see what the replies are to that reply, to then go back, it jumps to home feed instead of going back one step.

So I find myself hesitant to tap, because I hate having to try and find the original note again when I’ve been sent to updated home feed that has since had new notes. Hope that makes sense.

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Vitor Pamplona

This will get us closer to hashtag-exclusive posts. With that option, you can post into a hashtag, a location or a URL, without polluting your main feed. I can post on #chess without annoying all my followers with things they don't care about.

It's a simple way to separate your feed in topics so that only the follows of those topics see your posts, regardless if they follow you or not.

Topic-based feeds are better social media.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1233

Billy 1y ago

Thanks for the explanation, I love this idea… reminds me of how group chats are so clunky IMO, multiple 1:1 conversations going on between individuals, but everyone is getting notified and it’s all disjointed in a single feed. Too much noise and inefficient, there has to be a better way.

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