The architecture of Nostr is designed so that you as a publisher/consumer don’t have to rely on any given relay to carry your messages. Each relay is something of a “window” into part of what’s happening on Nostr. The architecture is resistant to censorship by any given relay. So if you publish to a handful of relays they can all “compete” to serve your messages to people who are interested in reading them.

Relays serve a very different function to bitcoin full nodes. I wouldn’t compare them too closely. Though you may choose to run your own relay and can ensure that your relay always carries your messages.

I’m configured to connect to 15 relays at the moment. You can experiment, but I wouldn’t worry too much about it when you’re first getting started.

I’m happy to try to help if you have any more questions!

this is great advice. everyone developing a new feature/app/service should make a video explaining the purpose/problem/demoing the current software. don’t worry about polish/editing. just get something out!

each time you add a new feature make a new short video to demo/explain nostr:note13ua8csawj5a0xp3r2k4qn64jln8mefdmqcehmk8jar0v54f0mv5sxjf3hw

thanks for sharing mcshane. i’m still working at this 🤙

doh! sorry i took you seriously 😝😝😝

you’ve proven a close listener 🤙👏🤌

nope. i just wanted to hear their story and see how they’re thinking of adapting Minds to use Nostr. felt to me like they have similar goals, but not always perfect clarity in how to adapt their existing site/technologies to this new architecture. what makes it feel like an ad?

💥💥💥 love to hear it! 🤙

nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 saw this mentioned

“While it borrows many ideas from Mastodon (including its API), it is built on the Nostr protocol.”

does that mean if/when “Ditto” is built out and if/when Threads launches fediverse features that Nostr will likely have interop with Threads?

I’ve been hoping for something like this! 🤞

a beautiful vision for the future of the Internet 🤩👇 nostr:note1nj2f2pyhhsclwwllmee39ndn4ka84c39aa53zv0cguvm4gv6m3ls5qkuqk

PV! 🤙

I just heard the good news that one of my fav Nostr developers and one of my fav Nostr designers might be collaborating to bring a radical new product to life.

let’s think more about a post-App-Store world 💫

🫂 just landed 🤙 nostr:note15j5f3um0c653z37gah4zlcr6hshswhcw3cq80hl78hu95xnducqqrlur4d

Nostr Talks: nostr:npub12u39uzkuhtglmhudnwsltumdv4l3xjm7p6n6a4kqadcp8e80ghcsxy3e62 and Mark Harding on building Minds.com

Minds.com is one of the original approaches to building a social networking service that seeks to empower users with more freedom (e.g., free speech, portable identities, etc.). Beginning over 10 years ago they’ve evolved the service to play a role in the modern architecture we’re exploring with Nostr. After Bill’s recent appearance talking about Nostr on Joe Rogan’s podcast we got a chance to dig deeper on the key philosophical and technical principles behind their work and how they think about Nostr. We were also lucky to include Mark Harding who is CTO of Minds.

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/viIRct7f5Ps

Podcast:

https://www.curiousdk.com/p/nostr-talks-bill-ottman-and-mark#details

nostr:npub12u39uzkuhtglmhudnwsltumdv4l3xjm7p6n6a4kqadcp8e80ghcsxy3e62 CEO of Minds.com on why Nostr will succeed

(full episode drops tomorrow) https://nostr.build/av/0bb2d004a0892e8ebf123ef8a89e2d2033f6e4f0168250606484d0bd048f8f64.mov

we’re all in beta in some sense

zapplepay is a rad idea

does https://ostrich.work data live on relays or in a private db? nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc

Beat me to it! 👀

Nostr News - Jul 13 - nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3 and nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8

+ Nostr Documentary

+ is Threads good for “team open”?

+ Nostr, Lightning, AI

+ OpenSats congrats/roll call!

YouTube:

https://youtu.be/XmvVUmZOPRE

Podcast:

https://www.curiousdk.com/p/nostr-news-jul-13-max-webster-and#details

paid! got it? 🤙

Threads is really well executed.

I don’t love anything about the architecture (or the company that runs it), but I’m hopeful that they won’t backpedal on the “fediverse” commitment and that’s just a rhyme away from Nostr. So it could prove to be a good gateway to decentralization for a wider audience.

we already have the solution to bots and spam. we have digital scarcity. it’s just not evenly distributed