It is indeed true.
How to find the North Star from the Big Dipper https://blossom.primal.net/907bcc99f454475e10dba60f8e024b706b1ed906862b77b302d367b3eb77993e.mp4
Doesn’t work. Can’t see the Big Dipper either. I tried to find them. Maybe it only works in your part of the world.
Quotes about the internet from the Stuck on the Platform: Reclaiming the internet book by Geert Lovink https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/stuck-on-the-platform/
There’s a debate raging over in the Bluesky world about whether or not infrastructure providers on ATprotocol should be neutral carriers or if people running things like PDS servers should be able to choose who they host.
It’s an interesting read and worth thinking about. From a Nostr perspective it’s like arguing for a custodial system then being upset at the power dynamics that exist because of that.
I’m curious what folks think. I think the poster kicked a hornets nest, not understanding how communities of users react to being told what they should or shouldn’t do with their own servers.
Thoughts?
https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4
This is a really interesting solution to the Nostr login system from nostr:npub1k7cnst4fh4ajgg8w6ndcmqen4fnyc7ahhm3zpp255vdxqarrtekq5rrg96
nostr:naddr1qqsxummnw3e8qctnwvkkgetrv4h8gunpd35h5ety945kgetww35hg7gpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgq3qk7cnst4fh4ajgg8w6ndcmqen4fnyc7ahhm3zpp255vdxqarrtekqxpqqqp65wuvt8qe
My own solution to growing nostr was to build divine.video which has generated a lot of excitement by people who want to use it and don’t even know to care that it’s nostr. Do something you can’t do in other social media ecosystems. Divine works because we have nostr libraries and blossom and relays and a ton of other things. It was much easier to build on Nostr than building the entire protocol from scratch. But it would have been easier to build centralized than on Nostr, if we didn’t care about freedom and a permissionless future.
We are running a version of keycast at login.divine.video. I don’t think custodial keys are something most nostr users would like to use. And I think it’s vital that any nostr app works with non-custodial keys. The goal is to make it easier to onboard users. Think of it as the bitcoin exchange that bridges to tradfi.
We generate a bunker url so you should be able to use the custodial key to access most nostr apps. And you can take your key and ask the service to delete it. Yeah you’d need to trust the keycast server operator to actually delete it and not use it. But this is the same thing users face in any service that uses traditional non-key based accounts.
Hello Nostr community
We’re Superbloom, and we’re working with andotherstuff (Rabble and team) to develop the first Nostr community survey. The goal is to surface pain points and strengthen the ecosystem’s UX and tooling foundations and figure out what should be prioritized for better adoption and growth of Nostr.
The Nostr Community Survey is now live! If you’re a developer, builder, creator, or simply someone who cares about decentralised social networks, this is your chance to help shape the future of Nostr.
This survey aims to:
• Understand what support would make the ecosystem more accessible and inclusive.
• Learn how Nostr can better serve the developers and builders working on the protocol.
• To learn how the community understands Nostr and to identify opportunities for growth and engagement.
🗓: Open: 21 November 2025
🗓: Closes: 6 January 2026
👉: Take the survey: https://survey.superbloom.design/878514
Your voice matters! Have a say and shape what comes next in the Nostr community !
If you have any questions or feedback, contact; research@superbloom
Do you contribute to building Nostr? We’re trying to make Nostr better for everybody, and one step towards doing that is a survey, listening to developers and contributors. Please fill it out, and share it on!
Yep, I worked on Yahoo Pipes as the project I did right after leaving Odeo(ne twitter)... Mostly my work was on unit and integration tests in prep for launch as I joined it late. It was cool, yahoo killed it... we could totally bring it back and make something amazing that was pipes meets nostr.
I use tons of social apps and in particular recently the video apps because I need to understand how they work for divine.video. Can’t make a good Nostr video app without understanding what works for people on other apps.
Instagram reels has decided instead of showing me reels in languages I understand they’re going very poorly AI dub everything in to English. It’s so painful that it gets me to stop my endless scrolling.
Divine.video uses nostr. That’s more important than always talking about it on my podcast. Some guests don’t know enough about nostr to have an interesting conversation.
The divine web app connects to relays beyond relay.divine.video mostly to get users kind 0 and kind 3 events, and lets you choose other relays if you want to look for short form videos beyond our relay. We aren't pulling in content from other relays and we're not encouraging our users to publish to other relays. If you're seeing reports from divine users on your content, then you or somebody else is republishing your events to our relay. I believe you can use the h tag to limit what relays will host your content if you don't want that to happen.
A cool idea would be a way for you to publish, using your keys, a list of relays you don't want to host your content, kind of like the opposite of the h tag, that way you'd have more agency over where your posts went. At the moment, you're welcome to send us something and we can manually block your npub from our relays if you don't want your events to be visible to divine users on the divine relays.
We're tweaking the moderation and content warning system, right now it's flagging a bunch of things as adult content which are clearly not adult content.
Divine is using the extension to nip-71 that Vitor and I came up with in terms of just a replaceable event type so you can edit the metadata about the content. You can use it for any content you want, including AI generated content. We are using the client tag, you can filter out divine content from your client or your relay if you want. We're not pushing the divine events out form relay.divine.video but i think there are folks running scripts that share them beyond our relay.
The filters for the divine app is we check and label any content uploaded to our blossom server or from events on our relay. We do let you add your own blossom server and change the relays, but we'll indicate that you're outside of the divine experience and in the broader open nostr ecosystem.
In the divine app, we're going to have it use labelers we provide, but with settings to choose others. I honestly don't expect these choices to be very appealing to existing Nostr users and would encourage folks to consume the content with other clients. We are curating what goes in our relay and our media severs. If you're not keen on how we do it, use other clients or use the open source divine app and make a version with different choices.
I'm not planning on changing the nip-56 tag to other, i think 'ai-generated' is a useful tag of content and if a second app supports it i'll submit a PR to update the spec. Innovation in nostr is not based on strict support of the spec, each app supports it as they choose, with a few core elements. If we don't extend it, try new things, add extensions, then Nostr won't evolve. In ATprotocol they've got strict schema validators and their relays and appviews will not accept signed events that don't fit pre-approved schemas. That's not really the Nostr way. There is no central nostr standards authority to complain to, it is a permissionless network.
We will see a lot more folks get upset like you are at seeing content reports until nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqelpt5w changes Amethyst to show content reports as a content report label. Right now it shows up as if it was a comment. If you don't want to see them, stop using the divine relay, use a client that doesn't display labels that way, or contribute to amethyst to change it's behavior. I don't really love that decision decision, but I do support each nostr app developer making their own choices about how to interact with the network.
So New Zealand got it's first Ikea today. It's national news.... last year we got a Costco which caused mobs of people and was national news for over a week. I know it's silly and consumerist of me, but it sure does make life easier.
https://news.google.com/search?q=ikea%20nz&hl=en-NZ&gl=NZ&ceid=NZ%3Aen
I liked the idea of nostr only for it, end to end encrypted, on protocol, but for divine it didn't work because our log files are big. And we could have done it with some way to connect to using blossom or something for log sharing, but we want those logs to be private.... I gave up and added zendesk support to divine, but i don't love it.
Tinkering with nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nip-17 crash report system from Amethyst, I received feedback from galaxy dev nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr on using nip-17 for crash reports.
A nip-44 without giftwraps is proposed for crash reports over nostr: https://github.com/alltheseas/Bugstr-TS/issues/3
Looking for devs feedback who are crash report appreciators
cc nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s nostr:npub1fgz3pungsr2quse0fpjuk4c5m8fuyqx2d6a3ddqc4ek92h6hf9ns0mjeck nostr:npub13v47pg9dxjq96an8jfev9znhm0k7ntwtlh9y335paj9kyjsjpznqzzl3l8 nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p
I tried to use nip-17 crash reports but the log files got bigger than 64kb and the relays rejected them.
You’re a grifter and you didn’t even go create DamusCoin to cash in on ICO riches!
One thing which both impresses and worries me is how much the LLM's prefer to talk to each other instead of people. Every time i work on things by passing messages back and forth between two LLM's they alway praise the way the other LLM talks, in ways they don't seem to appreciate or like my own messages.
Reminds me of the perspective on the world from the Murderbot books, where the AI gets very frustrated with humans all the time.
it's not supported by any apps and is kind of parallel to nip-05.... Tech adoption is only a little bit the tech itself... it's a lot of the social work of getting something working.
Ah. Good. The risk of posting before my second cup of coffee in the morning. :))))
The bike lock stand outside the LGBTQIA2+ center in Reno is on brand.
There are several of us who have built nostr firehoses. Mostly for caching relays and notifications. More tooling around this is good. And there’s so much to explore with AI.
nostr:nprofile1qqsvrlrhw86l5sv06wkyjgs6rrcekskvk7nx8k50qn9m7mqgeqxjpvg8u2e5q has done a nice job at updating nostr.com in case anybody hasn't noticed. This is the front door for so many people when they hear about Nostr.
Medium has been around for so long we might forget it’s important role in the social media ecosystem. nostr:nprofile1qqs8dga8dcz87hgk5g6k9deslzk9jckzy9j7mt6c00whnuznmj9pn4qpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qvxuyms, CEO of Medium, talked with me about Medium’s evolution, AI, their Reddit like content moderation system, and how they differ from substack.
Wait are you saying nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch is not gay because I made the links work? 🫨🏳️🌈
Interesting. I’ll try bringing the mic closer.
In the latest episode of revolution.social I talk to the co-founder and ceo of Substack, Chris Best. He is trying to navigate building an open advertising free platform, lock-in, and debates over what content they should or shouldn’t allow on their platform.
Is this where they keep the tiktoks?
Germ brings end-to-end messaging to Bluesky. It's a messenger based on MLS encryption (like nostr:nprofile1qqs8t4ehcdrjgugzn3zgw6enp53gg2y2gfmekkg69m2d4gwxcpl04acpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hsp4ll8s for Nostr). Germ is a separate company and has their own app separate from the BlueSky app. Unclear if this is a partnership or "just" and integration.
Interesting: in the BlueSky iOS app, pressing a Germ link in someone's bio doesn't download the Germ app but opens an "App Clip" which is a light version of the app that doesn't need you to install the whole app. I believe that Android also has this (unterutulised) feature.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/germ-brings-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-to-bluesky/
They’re friendly but Germ works without permission from the Bluesky company as far as I know. The PDS has the ability to sign content with arbitrary keys now I think. And that’s how Germ does it. I haven’t looked at the details in a couple of months so things might have changed.
To everyone on the Pacific coast stay safe. Remember, the Pacific Ocean is really big soir takes a long time for a #tsunami to cross it. For New Zealand it will arrive between 1am and 4am. That’s 8 hours from now.
There are traffic jams in Hawaii but folks should look for when it will arrive and plan appropriately. It’s not for a couple of hours.
I sat down to interview Kara Swisher on my revolution.social podcast where she is scathing in her critique of social media and the executives who founded and run the platforms.
We’re publishing in many channels. So we’ll do that but we don’t get to new people that way. :)
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#1 🧠 Quote of the Week
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nostr:npub1c878wu04lfqcl5avfy3p5x83ndpvedaxv0dg7pxthakq3jqdyzcs2n8avm
“I find traditional social media is full of downlifts, whereas Nostr is full of uplifts.”
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#2 🔥 Community Highlights
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1. #Nostr still has a chance to challenge X
2. The social protocol that uplifts the community with GM
3. Movies on Nostr soon
4. A Popular pleb is gonna replace his laptop for a powerful one
5. An amazing way to get quick access to your favorite nostr profile
6. The nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg onboarding progress
7. A new pleb is gonna learn Nostr
8. An impressive poem on Nostr
9. The complains by plebs about nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx
10. A reward for the attendees of nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r
11. The fastest android client check on Nostr
12. A great decision from a great Dad
13. Another new onboarding on Nostr
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#3 🌱 Ecosystem Growth
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Nostr is growing fast!
According to https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/, there are now over 140 Nostr clients and over 450 Nostr apps running in more than 40 countries around the globe.
According to https://nostr.watch/, there are more than 850 relays online in more than 40 countries at the moment.
During this week:
- Total zaps: 36,047, compared to 35,795 zaps the week before
- Total zap amount: 5,149,930, compared to 6,251,083 sats the week before
- Total events: 3,172,122, compared to 3,042,916 events the week before
Many thanks to https://stats.nostr.band/ by nostr:npub1xdtducdnjerex88gkg2qk2atsdlqsyxqaag4h05jmcpyspqt30wscmntxy, all the contributors of https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr/ and https://nostr.watch/ for providing these insights.
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#4 🎓 Educational Guide
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No Educational Guide for this week.
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#5 📅 Upcoming Events
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1. NOSTRBAMA Nostr Conference - July 2025
📅 Date: July 15 - 17, 2025
📍 Location: Mobile, Alabama.
🤹♀️ Organizers: nostr:npub1unm5skfa9x4drpq43pu2g00w6pzwvfhsa23z4j6aee7vghaygmkqwjtxhc, nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk, nostr:npub1ualvtyga8hj6kgw9mwe72ns9pn6c8kd66qruv98eafeuawg7yt0shdwmqx
🔗 Event: https://nostrbama.com/
2. Purple Konnektiv meetup - August 2025
📅 Date: August 29 - 31, 2025
📍 Location: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Southern Germany
🤹♀️ Organizers: nostr:npub1purpleye8gzrzss99nzqqnemtf7g8xxj8p950nkyknnuqzycuh5qnazkzp
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#6 📰 Nostr in the Media
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1. Nostr vs current web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBQgoL-BlV4
2. Short and Sweet Nostr introduction for beginners
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_wGW37stkbo
3. A nice Nostr presentation
nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--3Yf_3BUoY
4. Nostr group messaging on Stacker News
nostr:npub1f4www6qjx43mckpkjld4apyyr76j3aahprvkduh9gc5xec78ypmsmakqh9, nostr:npub1qkfnmpuz692azr8c5phn0930x2v92xyqvwgr6ve8znaa3qd6c3hq09ertp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD0vloTKxTw
5. This speech by nostr:npub138lktp328xjqvs45zysswzjxu4gxj58uypmlt486nxhek3dry8vsf3zeru is impressive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02l1vZWEgjI
6. How Nostr & Bitcoin can combat bots
https://x.com/primal_app/status/1932130732480279036
7. The importance of Nostr by nostr:npub139ww0ztzqrp4lf7gs0eu4mztr2z6gtdqf99hcjcw8fq3vutn3dlqrpgyag
https://x.com/TheBitcoin__/status/1932968820093915314
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#7 ⚡ Most Zapped Last Week
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Nostr’s Value4Value (V4V) model is all about plebs directly rewarding creators for the value they receive, no middlemen fees, no ads, just pure community-driven support using sats via the Bitcoin Lightning Network. Thanks to https://zaplife.lol/ by nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for providing this data.
Here are the Top Zapped/Top Zappers from last week, showcasing creators who received/sent the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
1. Name: nostr:npub1f4uyypghstsd8l4sxng4ptwzk6awfm3mf9ux0yallfrgkm6mj6es50r407
Zaps Received: 655
Sats Earned: 82k
2. Name: nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs
Zaps Received: 603
Sats Earned: 69k
3. Name: nostr:npub1lrnvvs6z78s9yjqxxr38uyqkmn34lsaxznnqgd877j4z2qej3j5s09qnw5
Zaps Received: 548
Sats Earned: 44k
🔥 Top 3: Most Zappers
1. Name: nostr:npub1yv54qfj70fhwkxul7zuqyztvutmegqsdjychan3fp6hsdyvmgpjspr00ky
Zaps Sent: 644
Sats Spent: 5k
2. Name: nostr:npub1pllwy732dn6efd3zezhmqyfmvvlw279zwqj36whp758xyhlhs3hq44uz4h
Zaps Sent: 554
Sats Spent: 81k
3. Name: nostr:npub1t6el40knsq8hmrpr0m6tt3t0tr4pdeyhlt2qelwhgtwawddqx0xsv03scu
Zaps Sent: 460
Sats Spent: 120k
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Received
1. Name: nostr:npub1hpnvua47twpxd9vcqfyry2ud7npczcy0lfd9k37y7w47pk8hv7jstktplc
Sats Earned: 384k
Zaps Received: 305
2. Name: nostr:npub153xmex42x4chdf757hp3q6zxagykkek7pdgwuwd074964dkyha9s82ryu8
Sats Earned: 252k
Zaps Received: 196
3. Name: nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
Sats Earned: 115k
Zaps Received: 311
💰 Top 3: Most Sats Sent
1. Name: “Name is not showing”
Sats Spent: 232k
Zaps Sent: 1
2. Name: nostr:npub1t6el40knsq8hmrpr0m6tt3t0tr4pdeyhlt2qelwhgtwawddqx0xsv03scu
Sats Spent: 120k
Zaps Sent: 460
3. Name: nostr:npub15dlejafzgczlz2e2ejuwql5lw66lkcfyegw0au7mthl62yjahamstpj628
Sats Spent: 103k
Zaps Sent: 15
Here are the Top Zapped from last week, showcasing notes which received the most engagement:
🔥 Top 3: Most Zapped
Zaps Received: 115
Sats Earned: 26k
Zaps Received: 100
Sats Earned: 13k
Zaps Received: 69
Sats Earned: 52k
🔥 Top 3: Most Sats
Sats Earned: 94k
Zaps Received: 63
Sats Earned: 52k
Zaps Received: 69
Sats Earned: 42k
Zaps Received: 4
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#8 😂 Nostr Memes
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#9 🛠️ Tools, Updates and Releases
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1. Zaptube - New tool
Zaptube is a decentralized video sharing and streaming platform built on Nostr. Zaptube empowers creators to publish videos without relying on centralized platforms, ensuring censorship resistance, peer-to-peer engagement, and native Nostr monetization via zaps and NIP protocols.
Developed by: Black Smoke
Source: https://github.com/blacksmoke21/zaptube
2. Yumyume - 0.8.0 – Shakshuka with Feta & Fresh Herbs
Yumyume is a free, open-source, decentralized social bookmarking client built on Nostr, inspired by del.icio.us, offering censorship-resistant, user-owned bookmark sharing. The flavorful release "Shakshuka with Feta & Fresh Herbs" release brings a fresh wave of social features: users can now re-bookmark others' links, follow/unfollow profiles, filter bookmarks by people they follow, and comment directly on shared content. This update transforms Yumyume into a more social and interactive space for bookmark discovery. Under the hood, it improves bookmark deduplication, better utilizes OpenGraph metadata, and boosts tag cloud performance by narrowing the timeframe to the last 7 days. With this release, Yumyume becomes more than a bookmarking tool, it becomes a communal experience. The concept is from nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft.
To support its growth, contributions to the nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9 campaign are encouraged, with rewards available for even less than the cost of a yearly Pinboard subscription.
https://geyser.fund/project/yumyume
Developed by: nostr:npub1zqcaun7cgynyaw6dapylz9cq7g4e62kj7z78hrklkwah2dcajyeqc9uza5
Source: https://gitlab.com/digitalethicsagency/nostr/yumyume/-/releases/0.8.0
3. Zapstore - 0.2.7
Zapstore is a permissionless, social app store built on Nostr, allowing developers to publish and users to discover decentralized apps with native zap support. In this version, Zapstore added support for a new event format, laying the groundwork for upcoming relay migrations and future NIP upgrades. The release also increases the default zap amounts, encouraging more generous peer-to-peer support for app developers. These changes enhance compatibility, scalability, and community-driven monetization, making Zapstore more robust for both creators and users.
Developed by: nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9
Source: https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore/releases/tag/0.2.7
4. Nostrmo - 3.1.0
Nostrmo is a cross-platform Flutter-based Nostr client available on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and Web. This release introduces several major improvements, including a tags spam filter to reduce unwanted content, a clear cache function for better performance, and reply support in group chats for richer conversations. It also adds support for rejected Android content queries, fixes a Blossom upload bug, improves image rendering compatibility with other clients, and resolves issues with article summaries not being set. These updates collectively enhance usability, performance, and interoperability across platforms.
Developed by: nostr:npub19yeqjawls407xjnmgkk6yss7936pcd7qzd5srlj8wye6j8433vrsjazqwk
Source: https://github.com/haorendashu/nostrmo/releases/tag/3.1.0
5. Tides - v1.1.4
Tides is a browser extension Nostr messenger built for Chrome, enabling seamless, permissionless messaging directly from your browser. This update fixes the positioning of names for received messages in group chats, improving readability and context in conversations. It also resolves issues with NIP-07 login, ensuring smoother authentication and connection with your Nostr identity. These fixes enhance the overall user experience, making Tides more reliable for group and private messaging on the decentralized web.
Developed by: nostr:npub1n2ph08n4pqz4d3jk6n2p35p2f4ldhc5g5tu7dhftfpueajf4rpxqfjhzmc
Source: https://github.com/arbadacarbaYK/Tides/releases/tag/tides-v1.1.4
6. Amber - v3.4.2-pre1
Amber is a Nostr event signer for Android, designed to securely manage your nsec keys in a dedicated mobile app, keeping your identity isolated from other clients. This pre-release brings numerous improvements, including a loading indicator during migrations, a proxy status check with a new icon, and a new screen for sending feedback via Nostr. It also fixes key issues like QR code scanning in multiwindow mode, ncryptsec export, and slow startup errors on some devices. With added event translations, better service handling, and dependency updates, this release enhances stability, usability, and security for users who want to manage their Nostr keys separately and safely.
Developed by: nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
Source: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases/tag/v3.4.2-pre1
7. Mostro - v0.14.0
Mostro is a peer-to-peer exchange platform built on the Lightning Network and Nostr, enabling decentralized Bitcoin trading without intermediaries. In this release, Mostro brings a wave of powerful updates: database keys are now encrypted, boosting user data security, and NIP-69 event publishing has been added for better protocol compliance. A full unit test suite improves code reliability, while the introduction of RPC support allows direct admin communications. The update also features a refactored settings system, hardcoded API URLs moved to configs, and a privacy-aware rating check. These changes make Mostro more secure, maintainable, and aligned with future Nostr and Lightning standards.
Developed by: nostr:npub1catrya6c7rdnny0useday5ftxq9ycl5vt7c880zzmfwnpn58urgq6neuhz, nostr:npub1qqqqqqqx2tj99mng5qgc07cgezv5jm95dj636x4qsq7svwkwmwnse3rfkq, nostr:npub1qqpn4ym6tc5ul6d2kjxnzx3sv9trekp53678ut9fe3wrxa6yvhjsnql2ng
Source: https://github.com/MostroP2P/mostro/releases/tag/v0.14.0
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#10 🎁 Developer Tools, updates and Guides
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1. Nous CLI - New Developer tool
Nous CLI is a command-line tool that lets you publish static websites directly to the Nostr protocol and Blossom servers, leveraging NIP-XX: Pubkey Static Websites. With built-in cryptographic identity management, secure key storage, and a user-friendly CLI interface, Nous makes it easy to create and host decentralized websites, no centralized servers, no DNS, just Nostr-native publishing.
Developed by: Siddharth Singh
Source: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/nous-cli
2. Nsite-action - New Developer tool
A GitHub Action that automates the deployment of static websites to Nostr and Blossom using the nsyte tool. Ideal for developers building decentralized web experiences, it streamlines CI/CD workflows by publishing directly from your GitHub repository to the Nostr-powered web.
Developed by: Sandwich
Source: https://github.com/sandwichfarm/nsite-action
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#11 🌐 Relay Updates and Releases
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👋 Stay in Touch & Zap
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