A warm tune for a cold day
Take off your raincoat
Baby, I want to touch the skin
The only way out of this cold unknowing
Is to radiate like this
"After Tuesday" π
I like the [...]str nomenclature
Gives a warm fuzzy feeling
Reading up a bit on OAuth 2
It's a better solution for digital identity than the everything app / Amazon
In that identity is separate from the app
Which allows multiple apps and multiple identity providers
But it's insecure insofar as account security depends on *every* site implementing the client side correctly
And they don't
And it's centralized and KYC'd
And there's no mechanism for sharing data between apps
And there's no mechanism for sharing data between identity providers
So, still sucks
Boosting my favorite open source Plain Text Accounting software hledger
https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger
Do your accounts in a simple, portable, totally non-KYC'd plain text file
And then run advanced queries on it
Which you can version-control and encrypt
Take control of your finances
I've made some truly awful mistakes
But they put me in the right place at the right time to help prevent something truly awful from happening
So I wouldn't undo them
What to do
As Laughter said, breathe and move forward
Thanks!
Yeah I'm off too! π
Have a beautiful day π
Good morning Onyx!
Happy Monday π
My two cents about nostr onboarding and UX at the very first step...
The first thing many ppl will do when they want to try Bluesky or nostr is a Google search
The first result for Bluesky is https://bsky.app/
The first thing they'll see is
There is no explanation of what Bluesky *is*
"See what's next"
Build curiosity
"Create a new account"
Call to action
Ppl can fill in "what Bluesky is" with their own aspirations
What Bluesky *is*, is way way way down the Google results at https://blueskyweb.org/
This first result for nostr is https://nostr.com/
The first thing ppl will see is
A lot of text describing what nostr is which won't mean anything to most ppl, and a small call to action
The call to action leads to another page with
... a lot more text describing what nostr is in terms that most ppl will not be interested in
The nostr approach is not wrong
For ppl who are into freedom tech it's more appealing than the Bluesky landing page
For ppl who just want an alternative to Twitter, the Bluesky approach is more appealing
For those ppl we need a landing page which is just
One link to an Android client
One link to an iOS client
One link to a web client
Smaller links to the ecosystem
The selected clients need a super simple onboarding which abstracts away the nsec/npub and doesn't delve into relay selection
Shows that there's a lot of potential for nostr which is great
Agreed on focusing on UX now not later, and it's improving at tremendous pace which is awesome
I feel a lot of ppl make these decisions without ever seeing a nostr app
I think this line says a lot
"They just want to feel safe"
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There's an audience of ppl who just want Twitter-without-Elon (sorry Elon) and want to feel safe
Starting with the name
Bluesky
Relaxing, un-threatening, appealing, beautiful, open
The landing page https://bsky.app/
Clean, minimalist, professional, corporate-y, reassuring
Step 2, a walled-garden
Safe, keep those birds-of-prey out
Starting with the name nostr
What does that mean?
notes and other stuff transmitted by relays
What does that mean?
Where is the landing page?
Confusion => anxiety
I doubt nostr can follow the same growth path as Bluesky
It may likely be slower
But also inexorable
The tide coming in vs a surge
Riffing on Eliza's note
The first vector may be ppl living on or looking for the edges
Artists
Free spirits
Engineers
Homesteaders
Rootless travellers
Freedom tech pioneers
Dissidents esp in countries where KYC risks are huge
Ppl like me, old and jaded
Followed by the edgy and their groupies
Followed by more mainstream interests
Bluesky will attract those journalists who like a corporate-y official feel and their followers
All is highly speculative
I like what you said in your talk at nostrasia about getting feedback from real user testing... that would be great
To be a bit more action than words I'll test out on a few "volunteers"
I don't know where is a good place to start?
Which clients?
Or
Which profile generators?
Or
Which "about nostr" landing pages?
Maybe this is the first UX question for nostr ... where to start? π
Just to note the correct address is:
The link I gave is the pre-nostr version:
The landing page go.yondar.me has useful info like
"What is my location used for?
Your GPS location simply shows where you are on the map in relation to other places. It can be helpful if you want to put a new place right where you are!
Your location is not transmitted, and our code is open-sourced to prove it. We are regular people who value our privacy, so we built Yondar to do the same for you."
#nostr developers are creating some of the most beautiful interfaces I've seen in a very long while
One of those records that is hair raising on vinyl
Oh my word yondar.me by nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w has a gorgeous UI
Found nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn ramen joint