I’ve always hated the rudeness and pride the emanated from Nostr, but it’s just par for the course. Bitcoiners have a sort of Nietzschean outlook that I find reprehensible, but they see life as metaphysically “zero sum” and thus think such an attitude is necessary to “win”.
It’s whatever. Just mute the uncouth. nostr:note1fkvp8798w9ckar7apdwpkprkxs5tjp4h7vwjpqregz7qj5cyjd7q50lyyf
Just wait until they experience the beautiful permanence and reliability of Nost— wait… nostr:note1m74w384e4h2aqtsnn6562nmd0hwehge2sll8jvt0rdhem5xf0d0sszpv6q
Yeah Primal has good design, but it isn’t as reliable for me in terms of actually registering simple actions. Like I have followed people on Primal and it doesn’t actually follow them.
I second this. I have sent probably $200 in super chats on YouTube. My YouTube account just used the same card I had on file for paying for youtube premium. Zero friction.
Maybe let people pay in Fiat but use BTC on their behalf on the backend like Strike? Then let users “upgrade” to using BTC directly if they choose to? Only have friction for the power user. Normies get zero friction.
Which app(s) are you using?
1. Anyone can spread your note anywhere they want without any kind of authentication
2. Every note is proven to be from you
The fact that both of these are true is sort of a nightmare tbh. It’s why I am hoping that private notes (like locked twitter accounts) will become the commonplace. I don’t think the above scenario is compatible with normie usage.
Notice how he contrasted “could be gone” with “can’t be stopped” lol.
Because content absolutely can be gone on Nostr. You don’t own your content here. You give the content to relays with no guarantees of uptime or permanence. nostr:note1npsl9pafm5gu4705hhsgs4x9kyeyx0r0xamvhjq4hpvw2x7rkpkqnd2seu
Bluesky custom feeds do this today nostr:note1d0f6l4jzt2wg2e8efcsll4pn8lc2qs85yselradp4m6k44dq22ws0ggvru
One small thing I just noticed is that when you tap the 3 dots on your own post, you can follow/block yourself. Might want to remove that if logged in account = author of post
Nostur is a really underrated iOS client.
It has a ton of features, but they’re all placed in areas where you would expect to find them, so it doesn’t feel burdensome. And because it has so many features, it feels delightfully unopinionated.
Another thing Nostur has that surprisingly few clients have in general is a well organized notifications view. See all the reactions, follows, replies, quotes, etc all separated into their own tab. So simple.
It was the first app to do multi-account on iOS too. nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe is doing great work!
I closed the app and opened it again and now I can’t recreate it 🤷🏼♂️
I checked and I’m on the latest App Store version. Not on testflight
Unrelated, but when I switch accounts in Nostur, my profile pic doesn’t switch but everything else does
Anybody played with Farcaster’s frames? It’s basically kind of taking an event and having it render with a html frame for some sort of interactivity.
It’s in someways a web based and cross app version of nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s’s idea of noscript. I kind of like the idea of frames. Like bluesky’s custom algorithms which are easy for third party developers to make and support, frames give developers a way to create a microapp.
Think a poll, or event, or even a little game. Remember back when Facebook had lots of apps. Some were stupid and annoying, but a lot were fun or interesting. Causes had an app which raised tens of millions of dollars by creating an interactive way to find charities and donate to support them. I feel like if we had something like this in Nostr, it’d be used and cool.
How might it work?
A nostr event could indicate that a type of ‘frame’ was able to handle its content. If the client wanted they could load the micro app from a web url, or perhaps something more decentralized, and hand the event content to the frame, which could then render something in a little html frame. Then that frame micro app could ask the enclosing web app for information about who the current user and permission to write new events and display a new frame state. This would be nifty and wouldn’t be too hard to learn.
I tried to promote the WebXDC standard for a while, to no avail.
I think it suits nostr well and could replace a lot of pointless event kinds. https://webxdc.org
Bluesky’s letting you post gifs… well not actually post gifs, just choose to embed a few gifs from a preselected list, but soon they say they’ll figure out media uploads.
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3kqy4mjw5eo2t
When I see stuff like this I realize that there are so many ways in which Nostr is far ahead of the other protocols. In others we’ve got work todo, but, for all it’s faults Nostr has the most interesting ecosystem.
Afaik, only Amethyst has a sticker feature. And that’s the closest thing to an ideal gif library out there. Primal and Damus at least don’t have gifs from what I can tell. Ability to link preview a gif url isn’t the same thing as a proper gif library integration imo.
A Giphy-like infrastructure can and should exist on nostr
For developers that oppose using Nostr for DMs, you need to at least give people the ability to put more than one link in their bio so they can include a messaging app ID or something.
From what I have seen, app developers artificially limit bios to just one link because they don’t want people putting “shitcoin” addresses in their bios and thus “threatening” Bitcoin adoption.
But disallowing custom links in bios is a really negative experience for many reasons. Nostr could legitimately compete with Linktree but it’s artificially held back for crybaby reasons. nostr:note128vap09aex37ehjmeefg6p6taq0l08hk8nrk6s023sjn2e4aq79swyk2ux
Last time I used Keet, it just worked really really poorly. Maybe it has improved since then though!
I would say that if we can’t rely on cryptography, we’re basically SOL on all fronts.
But the way around that would be to focus more heavily on device / data ownership. The unfortunate thing about Nostr though is that there is no authentication required to spread data. It’s not locked to only the relays that you choose.
So keeping notes only on your own device isn’t an option either. The only way to be “safe” on Nostr is to hide in absolute obscurity and hope that nobody finds your pubkey who you didn’t want to find your pubkey lol
Last time I used Keet, it just worked really really poorly. Maybe it has improved since then though!