✨ WELCOME TRAVELERS ✨
Today I'm announcing a new project called FIND ME ON NOSTR. The goal is to spread the word and onboard new users to this incredible protocol. To accomplish this, I have distributed QR codes throughout NYC linking to my profile (https://www.fmon.io/zach). Some of these QR codes are hiding NFC chips, which contain a sat reward of up to 10,000 sats!
So start exploring, and if you come across a Find Me on Nostr sticker, tap it with your phone and let the sats rain down!
(PS, the map on https://www.fmon.io/ should be helpful 😉)
This looks great! 👍
You can watch and listen to the African #Bitcoin Conference in Ghana here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/mkg9inY4mJM?si=lJjfaXvxkzkGWxpF
Allow me to set the vibe
#tunestr
https://open.spotify.com/album/4MTtvGnI74RyOmG5UrVZhf?si=DVU2XbyjRGiZWQOoPelrVQ
Exploring Nostr as a Replacement for Old School Online Forums
This week, I had an enlightening conversation with the team at Bamboo, a digital agency in Aotearoa New Zealand, about leveraging Nostr for communities. Bamboo supports organizations in establishing and nurturing online communities, primarily using basic web forum software. While this software is straightforward and manageable, hosted on their own servers, it's not quite hitting the mark. Engagement is low; people aren't sharing much, often forgetting to revisit or open emails. They're looking for something more dynamic, akin to Nostr.
The communities Bamboo works with aren't overly concerned about censorship, but they do value a sense of privacy and effective community moderation. Currently, their forums are moderated by a few designated volunteers who can delete content and interact with contributors. Unlike Reddit-style communities, there's no need for post approval queues.
However, there's a definite interest in privacy, though not necessarily requiring robust encryption. It could be as simple as restricting community access to specific relay connections, or encoding posts with a shared key – akin to a house lock, which is secure but not impervious to a determined intruder.
I believe Nostr can meet these needs. We're close, but there are challenges to address, particularly in making it straightforward for users to connect and engage with these community spaces using existing Nostr apps. Ideally, there should be clear instructions for web, iOS, and Android platforms. For instance, if someone installs the Amethyst app, they should be able to join a community easily, perhaps through a simple link.
For web users, the process might involve installing Amethyst, then clicking a link that directly ushers them into the community. This process still seems a bit complex, and simplifying it remains a challenge. A direct web sign-up process, similar to nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft's new web login, could be effective. Users could request to join a community or relay through a Nostr link, and relay operators would manage these requests and monitor joiners.
Moderators would need tools to oversee posts and flag inappropriate content within their community. While end-to-end encryption is appealing, it's crucial that it doesn't complicate the joining and participating process. Users should easily understand if they're posting within their specific community and not to the broader Nostr network. Similarly, viewing content should be streamlined to focus on community-specific interactions.
One option is we make it clear what relays host what content, provide info on joining a relay, finding it, adding it, posting to it.
Another option is we modify / extend the communities that satellite.earth and amethyst support.
Another would be…..?
In summary, while Nostr presents a promising alternative to traditional online forums, there's work to be done. We need to refine some underlying technical aspects and, more importantly, develop a user experience and apps that facilitate easy and engaging community interaction. This feels like a really good way to grow nostr, I hear folks with a clear need.
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Gm, nostr! ☕️ ⚡️
Is there a way to have both a send wallet for zapping, and a separate wallet for receiving zaps, in nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg
Websites:
www.privacyguides.org
www.privacytools.io (take this one with a grain of salt)
www.sunknudsen.com
www.techlore.tech
www.kycnot.me
www.alternativeto.com (not technically a privacy resource, but great for finding FOSS projects)
YouTube channels:
Techlore
Sun Knudsen
The Hated One
Podcasts:
nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g 's podcast: Opt Out
The Privacy Security & Osint Show
Books:
Inteltechniques.com
Amazing. You have my gratitude🫡
In what may go down as the lamest question on #nostr today: is there some sort of #opsec guide/beginners guide to opsec, for those of us who are not particularly tech gurus but willing to put in the work? Whatever it takes. Any read-ups would be appreciated. Many thanks, friends.
thankful for spooks in canada and nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 for reminding me of the importance of non-kyc lightning apps such as #robosats. Decided to ditch shakepay today and will be focusing no-kyc exchanges only. The ux in these apps are pretty rough. Looking forward to contributing to these when I can.
I would love a native client for robosats, bonus with an order book backed by nostr. So much work to be done here.
Shakepay makes it so hard to leave with their free withdrawals in these high fee environments. Gotta weigh these costs against the price of freedom I suppose.
Their recent focus on becoming user’s “banks” is off-putting and their refusal to remove ETH is frustrating.
I appreciate you, nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8
I ditched the news in 2015. That is to say I cancelled my subscriptions and stopped “turning on the news”. It’s been incredible.
It’s impossible not to hear/see things in the periphery but I can explore the subject matter further, only if I’m truly interested in it.
It wasn’t a grand rebellious statement. I didn’t want to be my gran, whose TV runs news every waking hour. I love her dearly, but she lives in a world where, after my grandfather died, she no longer thinks for herself or forms her own opinions. Every conversation literally starts with “you know, I don’t watch the news but…….(insert DREAD-du-jour)”.
GN, sweet birds! ⚡️🫡 🫂
Things I like to talk about that are not Bitcoin or Nostr
- music/music production
- synths/vintage gear
- baseball
- cooking
- n-f-p international service projects
- law nostr:note17c58vmc43e9a8m8ugvrhcy3jpuwwqrnx0rhfup3w9j7730rp8kyq559zpp
Feeling for the folks who need to open channels with new Lightning Wallets via on-chain: this mempool is SO SPICY 🌶️
GM #nostr. #coffeechain ☕️⚡️🫡
One of my all-time favs.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1o22EcqsCANhwYdaNOSdwS?si=Axv4xZ10Qv29QmFmbXRbvA
Fellow non-technical dummy here. You can spin up a node via Zeus by sending an on-chain transfer. Then later on, you can connect it to a node of your own. I use Zeus to spend and Alby (connected to Zeus to stack).
It was dead easy.
It was this Ramblin’ Jack Elliot track that was our anthem. I think I liked because Guabi Guabi sounded like the See ‘n Say Turkey.
#tunestr
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MzHX7LpM1XlZUpAft43z2?si=cC9wZHrLQwmOd0B2qNg36w
