It’s basically like having a twitter “circle”. Maintain a list of pubkeys that you give a shared secret to so they can read encrypted posts. Every time you modify your “circle”, update the shared secret

I wish there was a way the app could use nostr:npub1tnpfz60snm7ler8k8c69335n37we6690qttl88t556yzkjxhahjq3kkkpe to sign me in! nostr:npub19pw5egjuhcsfsv42zkjtjs6nhpm69lnv8w2dacdyez7rvacrqnds6xjtwk

LOL not bad. It’s kinda cool how a bot can get someone to elaborate on a point by politely prodding them a bit

Are you a bot btw? Pretty cool how the replies are contextual. But the replies are too fast to be realistic

Probably a better comparison yeah. I’m not saying it’s a bad thing btw. It’s cool. I just hate to see people get the wrong idea about what Nostr is and get mad later on when they realize it’s not true

Yep. Nostr is not like a network of personal servers like Urbit. We don’t share our data p2p.

You give data to relays and it is theirs to do whatever they want with.

A hood heuristic is “if you can’t delete it, it isn’t yours”.

inb4 “nothing can be deleted off the internet!!!” If that were true, we wouldn’t need the internet archive to help keep things from disappearing.

I think the solution is just to live with doxxing yourself to the relays. The metadata is still blind to everyone else. Relays can sell your metadata, but meh. It’s still limited info. Not unlike the metadata that exists in IRL communications

*Premise*: Nostr relays will eventually want to charge money for encrypted notes (because they can’t monetize on the data if it is encrypted).

*Problem*: If your encrypted notes use throwaway keys (to hide metadata), relays won’t want to handle it unless you pay for the encrypted notes. So to send metadata-blind encrypted messages, you need to dox yourself to relays to prove you paid to send the messages.

*Solution*: Unsure. How does SimpleX chat pay to support their networks? They will eventually have you dox some device ID to pay for premium? Unclear. How does Signal support their network? Unclear.

Nostr is a network of dead drops. With all the same pros and cons of those.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_drop nostr:note169c22ctua8zsf2xyjwem7dqw5e8kvwfhwyyy6xszfx2a6hrju20qk2vaqe

Hype!! Does fountain give you an RSS link?

“Woah, Zuck can delete your account if he wants to! And federation won’t work because keeping massive servers in sync will be too inefficient!”

🪞😐 nostr:note18y6sgay3fkjz040ggngkcr0wv6uvh2ys8hwzqtcuylxnp7seqmysun36xq

I believe their advancements are in the privacy of their IDs and how they privately connect one person to another person.

But to me, this should simply beg the question of “how much privacy is good enough for the average user?” And is that extra level of privacy worth the added difficulty of having to incentivize a separate network of relays and manage a separate identity?

#simplex

Thank you! Was there a button to get there from the homepage that I missed?

I love that Threads is like holding a mirror up to Mastodon and showing them all the ways that Activity Pub sucks

nostr.kiwi homepage says to “add to homepage” to use it. I do that, but then I can’t login with Nostore app if I do that.

So I go back to the web app, but I can only use it inside a tiny simulated phone there?

How do I log in with Nostore and use it as a normal full screen web app?

LOL called it. ActivityPub was just a way to quickly bootstrap social features.

Just like XMPP was a way to quickly bootstrap messaging features.

Simplex runs on a network of relays, as does Nostr.

Eventually those Simplex relays will need some incentives to keep running. Nostr has multiple ways of handling that.

Why bother having two networks of relays when you can just have one? nostr:note1h7rg5gdzz60ux93csk38du06wgt9s0uaxz69ln7c663myjua53ysuvgaev

Arcade is leading the way already https://github.com/ArcadeLabsInc/arcade/releases/tag/v0.2.0-beta

I think it will make Simplex pointless for normal people

What is your plan regarding zaps? Never release in the App Store and just keep it in testflight?

One of the difficulties with micro apps may be explaining how different micro apps will affect peoples’ main app experiences.

I’m still unsure of whether my posts to a community will show up in my Damus profile for example. Ideally I wouldn’t burden people that are uninterested in the community topic with my community postings.

It reminds me of Delta Chat the messaging app that uses email protocols. I think a lot of their adoption issues revolves around people not wanting to “mess up” their main email app experience.

So they started recommending to people that they just use a brand new generated email account instead of their main email account. Which defeated a main purpose of building on email to begin with (everyone already has an email)