Relays work sort of like a subreddit. You can share a link to your videos on any free Nostr relay, but you will need to host your videos on another service. If you are already uploading to another provider, like YouTube, you can share those links for free.
Relays don't store content like videos. We are transmitting JSON to share videos from anywhere else online. So, your videos will be to be hosted "somewhere" which can be anywhere.
That's fair. 🤣 I use both- mainly because I have a decade of using it under my belt. Discord is regrettably where the homies are.
I know, nothing more disgusting than being one of the 1 billion monthly users of Reddit.
Unfortunately there's a lot of great recipes, exchange communities, and content there.
Current:
Reddit- hobbyist content
Discord - communication and notes
LogSeq - long-term note archival
Amethyst - primary Nostr client
Relay.tools - home to all my relays
Future outlook:
Ribbit 🐸
Flotilla
LogStr
Amethyst
Relay.tools
Someone just pointed out to me that Jumble.social is doing the relay grouping. This is exactly what I'm referring to, but my client will be local in design. If this is FOSS it may be forked for the time being.
Sadly I've only just begun development. My architecture is simple- using bun.sh or Buntralino to build out a Nostr client with Rust-Nostr. My only current priorities are to establish a feed of notes, gift-wrapped dm's, and essentially copying the NoteDeck UI for what it is now. The idea is that once a "not-purely Rust version of NoteDeck" exists, it will be easy for anyone to fork and develop on, using whatever frameworks they want. I am still using Bootstrap and figuring out how to construct a UI. Have worked with Rust-Nostr a bit but I have a lot to learn in the process.
I think narrowing NoteDeck explicitly to Rust developers is a bottleneck for Nostr clients right now. So, I hope to open up the ecosystem in a new way by addressing the most crucial aspect: relay management.
It's easy to imagine a Reddit client- simply look at oddBean. OddBean is cool but is built into strfry, and C++ is not the most relevant language among Nostr I assume. I've never touched it but my experience doesn't mean much here.
What we're lacking is a kind-1 explorer that treats relays like subreddits. I'm running relay.tools to facilitate the relay aspects. My VPS running RT can simply use API calls to map out the topology of my relays.
My client could also in theory ping any instance of relay.tools and fetch relays via NIP-66. There is so much that is possible, and I think it begins with a new client that leverages the best of everything- but primarily focuses on kind-1 events and secure direct messaging with outbox support.
Actually the most important question one could ask!
The best way I have been able to manage isolated or topical relays, is by adding them to "general relays" in Amethyst. I also disable them for dm's and global.
I made a feature request for Amethyst recently to expand upon "local relays" in order to facilitate the growing list of relays we might interact with. It is a recent open issue if you'd like to check that out.
I'm starting with a desktop Nostr client, which will be similar to "old reddit" with relays representing each "community" or subreddit. I am more of a designer than a coder, so mostly I am being humbled at every turn.
We need client evolution.
Absolutely yes to all of it. You've been added to the relay. I'm still learning how all of those concepts can come together, but I believe this is the foundation that Nostr is currently missing.
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#amethyst
How do I preemptively hide the video from my feed 😭
Ah, yeah, my mistake. In that case Obsidian is a really good starting point.
I have used it in the past, it was the very promising "EverNote Killer," but it never delivered for a certain subset of users. I can use Obsidian for some documents but prefer other editors. What it lacks is what LogSeq provides. There is actually a plugin that tries to provide LogSeq-style structure but the app just isn't designed around this, so it falls flat. I will check out the plugin author though, I appreciate your suggestion!
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