Could not agree more. It also has a lot more infrastructure around it and a freaking cool community. I’ve looked at some of the others… and they just never clicked with me.
Ahhh thanks so much. I am in the process of setting up my own BTC lightning node. Hopefully should have it up this week. :D
Hmm… that’s such a good question. I think from a dev perspective just having more libraries built out on different languages is going to be a big one. I was writing some Nostr code the other day in Python just to understand how everything works at a lower level… and it was difficult to get things working initially because the one library I found was in kinda a weird unmaintained state.
From a user perspective… I feel like the public private key idea is going to be a bit tricky to get my parents and siblings to understand. That being said.. once they do… I think they’d freaking love it.
what about you what do you think is still lacking? How can it be improved from a user perspective and otherwise?
Oh I love that framing. When it really clicked for me was logging into a podcast app with my Nostr private key and having my identity synced… That’s such an insane feature. You can essentially have a digital identity follow you on public, and private networks. 🤯🤯
Hey new Nostr users that have jumped on Nostr thanks to nostr:npub1xr7t5h0l25ej73pm04zgz9afeexyzsjx67s5v0xxf2sshjn4sx6sep2gqh, I'd like to take a moment and blow your mind and show you the power of Nostr. You're probably using Damus or Primal right now. I want you to go and download an app called nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg or nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 . You can get either of these on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. They're essentially Spotify but for Nostr. Once you have either one downloaded, you're going to want to "sign in" to this app with your private key or secret key from your Damus or your Primal. This is the long ugly looking string of characters that starts with NSEC. This is like your super secret password that you can never change, so you do want to keep it save and never share it. This key unlocks your identity. Now that you're signed into these apps, you can now comment on songs, boost them, share them, etc. and you'll see that activity in your Damus or Primal. Why? Because it's the same ecosystem and all of these apps work together. How fucking cool is that?
Download it! Loving it. Thanks for the recommendation
I’m getting really excited about all the possibilities that Nostr brings. Just wrote a blog post on the topic here:
https://www.awhb.dev/blog/nostr-how-it-could-change-the-world