Less bots and less noise actually
Thats kind of the idea behind posting to several. We may not read from the same relays for each feed but my posts are still highly available
Finding people for me so far hasn't been too big of a problem
The twitter refugees that went to mastodon and gave up likely never even tried soapbox or the good mobile apps. Search Engine Optimization for the fedi has been fucked since the media blitz of 2017. Also the walled garden instances joinmastodon.com funneled them into probably didnt tell them about soapbox on purpose.
Also, a lot of the people here came from twitter and in many ways nostr is more similar to it than the fedi is. We can't really compare instances to relays because there's no real loyalty to them here. People publish to as many as they know about and (hopefully) pull down posts from just a few. Whereas on fedi people identify with their instance and the instances close to them and communities form. Communities on Nostr are more like twitter. Just like minded posters in a giant public pool with no clear boundary. I'm not sure nostr will ever replicate what the fedi has, and I think thats ok
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^^^This is a channel just for video games. We can't just post Nostr meta and bitcoin all of the time. Join up gamers
Fun facts about Telegram:
* has its own shitcoin
* is not end to end encrypted by default
* doesn’t support encrypted group chats
* is Russian owned
* is centralized
Nostr holds the promise of being an alternative, but in the meantime, I recommend checking out the matrix protocol: https://matrix.org/
One good client for it is https://element.io/
“But what about Signal?”
Signal is okay, and a better alternative to a lot of chat apps but it’s centralized, and has privacy issues (you have to sign up with a phone number). Its creator Moxie doesn’t seem to think decentralization is a good idea (in general) and expresses his views at length here: https://youtu.be/Nj3YFprqAr8
Matrix has decent adoption but I think its too complicated. There's a reason Elements is the only good client
IMO we should push people into XMPP. The Conversations app on fdroid is a smoother experience than Matrix has ever given me on any frontend
**NostrPlebs.com surpasses over 2,200 registered users**
The major milestone of hitting 2,000 registered users was actually a couple days ago, but we've been so busy blocking spammers, scammers, and providing support to an incredible amount of new users that I missed this event. Oops!
Over the past eight weeks, we've seen continual growth, providing Nostr NIP-05 IDs, Nostr services, and support to the Nostr community. Thank you for making us the *largest* and one of the most respected service providers in this space. Without your incredible support, we wouldn't be here.
Thank you to all current users and a **pura vida** to all upcoming new members. 🤙
Visit https://nostrplebs.com for all your Nostr services.
Congrats dude thats a great accomplishment
That third icon is for followings isnt it
Put a help button on the login screen and in the left hand flyout menu with some explaining. That might be a good place to start.
As for help reply - super controversial suggestion - since you already add us to the Amethyst Users channel in the DM/channels menu - maybe add another column to the home screen for JUST that channel - or a new one called Amethyst Help
The Channels tab by default still going to free relays right?
Yeah its pretty important actually. Especially for people coming from ActivityPub not twitter (we exist)
I think you should hide the nsec button in the flyout menu
While https://nostr.build is down, you can use https://nostrimg.com, https://imgur.com, and https://void.cat for your image hosting needs.
Void Cat? This one is news to me what is it?
He also posted a link to an android app called Amethyst. I'm using it to reply to youright now and it loads super fast
Such a wild experience seeing all this come together at this pace. Its fun
