Nostr starter pack
If you’re new to Nostr (regardless of which client you use — Damus, Snort, Iris, etc.) it’s helpful to follow a few quality/active accounts to get a feel for how it all works and to find conversations you can participate in.
Since a lot of apps don’t have good discovery hubs I thought I would write a note for people who are new here to help you find some quality/active accounts to bootstrap your feed to begin your journey.
Tap any of these and tap “follow” on the profile pages to start building your list:
fiatjaf - #[0]
jb55 - #[1]
jack - #[2]
snowden - #[3]
nvk - #[4]
rijndael - #[5]
grubles - #[6]
odell - #[7]
martybent - #[8]
leishman - #[9]
bitcoinjungle - #[10]
mags - #[11]
susiebdds - #[12]
derekross - #[13]
corndalorian - #[14]
adamcurry - #[15]
0xtr - #[16]
shawn - #[17]
max - #[18]
dk - #[19]
I’ve had my current account for awhile now and have plenty of good people I’m following so my feeds on Nostr are always active and interesting.
However, for some YouTube videos I was making I wanted to revisit the new user experience with Nostr (on Damus) and it feels confusing to arrive and not have any help getting connected to any active/interesting accounts. How should a new Nostr user find reasonable accounts to follow?
I’ve seen websites that try to help with this like Nostr.band and Nostr.directory, but it’s too many steps to need the alby extension (and a desktop browser?). I’d really love to see in-app experiences to help a new user get connected to active/interesting accounts.
Do any Nostr apps already do this? Who has an example of a good UX for onboarding/following new users?
I recognize the centrazling nature of discovery here, but I also wonder if long-term the discovery data could/should be available as notes stored on relays with a pluggable architecture for the algorithms. Maybe better to start centralized to simplify since any given app can swap out or support swappable later?
I’m interested to hear peoples’ thoughts on this topic.
Welcome, to your new home on the Internet! 🤙💜
so all publish events would be to your open relay, but those works be syndicated to other relays and most reading would happen from larger relays?
just trying to make sure i am understanding the model you have in mind
do you suspect the future would/should have everyone running their own relays?
happy birthday, 0xtr! hope your year is full of peace ✌️ 🫂
so it is nostr/protocol level or did snort just decide to do it as a client thing?
i assume it’s a damus thing and not a nostr thing? what’s the state of the discussion on that being app or eventually protocol level?
does this use nostr primarily to establish the connection but then the parties on the call are directly connected and voice data flows from one monster app client to the other?
oh yeah, ads are big business today. i just wonder if the numbers will be as large once the control points change
the free alternatives to YouTube lack a lot of the important content
interesting possibility - but i’d guess amounts would end up being too minor to matter compared to the hassle. good thing is at least it can be tried!