Doubt it is. It was the most popular relay when I got here a year ago and it's always been full of spam and porn.

Wait, wut?

Is it in Settings?

I would like to see at least one client that surfaces a “selector” that allows the user to select to see notes from just a single relay or from however many check marked.

This way I can jump between relays without nuking thin from my relay list.

In the future I could see this changing the entire Nostr experience, sort of like “changing flavors”.

How well does it handle the replyguys?

THERE WILL BE MANY SPAM ATTACKS ON NOSTR. THEY WILL GET MORE CREATIVE OVER TIME.

WE WILL MITIGATE THEM THROUGH VARIOUS MEANS WITHOUT RESORTING TO MASS IDENTITY VERIFICATION - WHICH HAS BEEN THE MAIN TACTIC USED ON CENTRALIZED PLATFORMS.

RELAY OPERATORS AND CLIENT MAINTAINERS WILL LIKELY EMPLOY DIFFERENT METHODS SINCE THIS IS AN OPEN PROTOCOL.

I don't know if they real or you are using AI 🤭😵‍💫

I get your worries on client dependency to coordinate, and notes not being shared broadly via the outbox model. My suggestion doesn't change the outbox model but rather optimizes it. It would not be able to solve the broadcasting issue, but it can resolve many other concerns.

The idea is more like “Relay-as-a-Service (RaaS)” concept whereby you have a personal relay that is more lightweight as it only stores your notes, messages etc compared to general relays that store all the data. You can have this hosted locally for security purposes or relay devs can expand their service to "cloud" for users who don't want to host locally, just because or for safety reasons.

When you send data, someone else who has some common relays with you will be able to view it.

It can be cross synched to your other devices like will's idea or use IoT concept like LoRa or Zigbee or regular wifi but might need some network protocal synch

To enhance privacy, clients can also enhance UX for users who want to share both privately and globally presuming what they share is limited to selected relays or not visible to the public.

Users can delete their own notes but it might need some protocol to delete notes that are temporarily or permanently stored anywhere else.

Users can also upgrade storage capacity or use external relays for specific functions (images, video stage, streaming etc) to ensure modularity and scalability.

The overall idea is to not only optimize data storage, but also gives users full control of their own data (delete, edit, privacy etc).

i was trying to look up for the conversation we had last on this but might be a long time back - bunking in on this note.

I was just wondering, would there be an easier way where i can have my relay that just stores my data (notes and messages (sent and received)) and all other relays can be used as your transmitter. Some benefits :

- It would lessen the need of my computer - i wouldn't need some massive server capacity to run a relay.

- And if i need to sync up between my phone and computer, we can use Will's idea.

- I don't have to depend on other relays to store/ clear data.

- I can delete whatever I have written.

- I have control over my data.

- If i need more storage for videos etc then either i increase my own capacity or use other relays (free/private)

From a user perspective, it would be easier is users just need to assume it works like installing an app to install the operation to run your own relay.

I haven't fully thought through this yet and I don't know enough - but just a thought

Let's say there is a company whose sole purpose is to evaluate relay operators and offer relay list recommendations to the best ones.

How much would you pay for that service?

Oops. It's Nostr, no take backs. Do you have a link to Ostrich. We homeschool and I find this interesting.

it's not a real nostr client though

I am hearing lots of people saying that we are hitting a plateau with LLMs. They keep getting better but their pace has significantly slowed down to the point that they might never actually fulfill the level of "intelligence" people are expecting. Thoughts?

NWS will not break nostr.

NWS works with and without encrypted transport. There are lots of different flavors to explore.

When used without encryption, the entry node must be run by the user themselves because public entry nodes would be able to listen in otherwise. Two options in those cases: run the entry node locally in tandem with your (unmodified) client, or skip the entry node and modify the client so that data is sent through nostr to the exit node directly (the client is the entry node).

When used with encryption, the entry node can also be public. If the encryption doesn't rely on certificate authorities, it just works. You have to make sure you're talking to the right person, but that problem is as old as computer science. For example, ssh will ask you to confirm the fingerprint of the server when you connect.

If the encryption is https and the certificate was issued for a normal domain, your browser will complain (do you trust this website?) and the user will have to say "let me pass, even if insecure". Without ugly hacks (issuing your own root cert for example), I don't know ways to circumvent this. Note that Tor services doen't support https and they don't have to since transport is always Sphinx-encrypted (even hidden from the entry node).

How do you make sure you're talking to the right server if you use https? Couldn't the entry node just send your traffic somewhete else? We can actually do something that is unique to Nostr here: the exit node can publish its own TLS certificate on nostr and sign it. That's right, you don't need an authority to do that for you if you remain within the NWS system. Clients can fetch the cert from nostr before talking to the entry node and verify against that cert.

Here is another cool part that we haven't talked about yet: the exit node can also be configured to reach the global Internet and not only a local service (we call this NWS v2). In those cases, NWS can be used a bit like a VPN. You can type "https google dot com" in your browser and your encrypted traffic would flow from your machine to the entry node, to the exit node, then to Google and back to you. on those cases, nobody complains about the certificate because everything is fine.

Exciting shit. Gm.

Observation:

On Nostr I follow a bunch of indie hackers building open source stuff creating immense value, most notably in nostr and bitcoin. They’re all grant funded.

On X I follow a bunch of indie hackers building proprietary stuff creating immense value, most notably in AI. Many are making insane monthly recurring revenues (MRR) and are all bootstrapped/self-funded.

Question:

How do we create a culture of open source indie hackers in bitcoin/nostr that are making self-sustaining MRR?

my phone

One of these days, Egyptair’s cross-Atlantic flights will join the modern world and introduce wifi. But today is not that day.

In the meantime, I don’t mind that much. It’s time I can set aside to read books and papers on my backlog.

One of the coolest and creepiest questions for LLM research is how many prompts the LLM takes to figure out exactly who the user is.

Most LLMs can already identify the user's gender, age range, education, and socio-economic status from prompts alone and reply accordingly. Current accuracy is about 80% after 6 prompts.

More interestingly, how should the LLM reply if it wants to trigger the user into revealing who they are so that the LLM can answer questions more precisely.

Do not trust people who lied to you yesterday to tell you the truth today.

😸 nos.lol update

- default rate limits doubled

- less rate limits for low web of trust score pubkeys that are sending links or pictures

Is this powdery mildew on my zucchini?

#gardening

#homesteading

#grownostr?

#asknostr

If you keep muting people in the primal trending sidebar, does it eventually give you the good stuff 🤔

#asknostr