I find the whole UI kind of unattractive. The dark mode colors aren't quite dark enough and make it look kind of muddy. Lots of small details just feel a little off to me. Like the radius on the corners of these notification elements. And how they say 'x' interacted with your note. Interacted how?

How does this work if I’m using a signing extension (like GetAlby)?

Faster than Postgres? That would be surprising, but then again they proved it's faster to read from sqlite than to read from a file... even though sqlite is a file.

Do you know what the motivation for this over just-using-postgres was? I’m confident you can beat postgres if you’re careful and thoughtful, but I’m also reasonably confident rolling your own system like this is at minimum going to be brittle, and probably have at least as many performance pitfalls at the end of the day.

Wouldn’t you just use the relay list thing to know where to look for stuff? Also theres an assumption in hints that they will always be at a specific location, but locations change and go down over time. It just doesn’t seem that useful to me.

Relay hints never made sense in Damus because it doesn’t connect to random relays. This will probably change soon with the nostrdb integration.

100% I would love to lighten damus relays load by removing it from my relay list, but then I fear that I wouldn't be able to talk to iPhoners.. (which is I think a fairly large portion of nostr).

It's interesting to watch relay evolution where they seem to be chasing this centralization, trying various things to decentralize but unable to do so yet. Heavily relying on blastr to communicate.

Example: relayable pulls events from popular relays (including damus), and then to compensate sends any events it receives organically to a blastr instance. If it didn't do that, people wouldn't be able to respond to these damus events. If blastr is unable to send events to damus due to spam mitigation or heavy load, these events won't make it to their intended recipients. It's an interesting workaround.. But also makes fighting spam difficult and increases relay load for everyone. I've been doing some analysis and on my relay a high percentage of my events are coming from the same set of IPs (all cloudflare), which I assume are blastr instances..

Anyway, bottom line is id like to see relay hints take off and hope clients can try to implement them soon.

Snort.

“Born to Run” #bookstr might help

i didn't know that nostr had so many shoe maxis. a new rabbit hole has been found.

Zaps are really cool.

But cold storage is even cooler 😎

If zapping was your first encounter with #bitcoin, it might be a good time to look into how to securely save Bitcoin too.

Great place to start is with a blockstream jade hardware wallet!

Same. All of them:

- girlname123456

- prominent cleavage in pfp

- absolutely nonsensical gibberish bio and posts (if any)

- suggestive pictures of people clearly not the same person in pfp

- "joined 5 mins ago"

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