I just see the signal of someone who was ok mostly wasting years of their time on something they could have gotten 100, better and more easily and way cheaper
I gave a talk recently to some kids and mentioned that if they want to do anything in CS they should probably *not* get a degree;
going through an entire university degree without being compelled to quit and start building in today's world is a smell.
Clients (and users) must do a better job helping each other find people and notes on Nostr.
For example, someone just sent me a link like this: https://snort.social/e/note1g459tq3ucft6jz5s7zhhswjtz7h8qlfyf43vmrsu7tfpw800hkesq543gg -- but when I click on it it doesn't show anything. Why? Because Snort has no way to know in which relay this note is. It also doesn't show on https://nostr.guru/note1g459tq3ucft6jz5s7zhhswjtz7h8qlfyf43vmrsu7tfpw800hkesq543gg
But if I convert that to nevent format with the Mostr relay encoded inside then it suddenly works: https://nostr.guru/nevent1qqsy26z4sg7vy4afp2g0ptmc8f930tns05jy6ckd3cw095shrhhmmvcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qe2wps6
It also works on https://coracle.social/nevent1qqsy26z4sg7vy4afp2g0ptmc8f930tns05jy6ckd3cw095shrhhmmvcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qe2wps6
e tags with the relay need to be more common too
On nostr, I don’t see new followers notifications, so I don’t check who’s following me here either.
It’s glorious.
Hadn’t realized before how annoying that vanity metric was.
When I get new followers on Twitter I don’t even look at who they are anymore; I don’t expect it to be any signal left on birdy app for me.
Web of trust
“I know you’re a human, I vouch for you X”
“This npub writes interesting things I vouch for it X/50”
Not everybody has sats readily available; shouldn’t be a requirement to start using a new protocol/product you don’t know to jump through so many hoops
I think I’d you mix POW with WoT you can get a sweet spot that is not costly; spammer and new user start from zero reputation but they should quickly differentiate themselves and the required POW can decrease as their WoT increases
That doesn’t require anything new, just sign the zap with disposable keys
Proxies are the solution; from the phone’s standpoint is the exact same experience as using Twitter
No public code as I hacked it together very quickly; I’ve been cleaning it and integrating it with my NDK library that implements the gossip/NIP-65 model
I had the same feeling: sats are the pow.
But for ppl without easy access to sats (precoiner, no experience with LN) having a built-in way of proving you’re a human is a good idea
We had a horrible experience last night leaving Vietnam with a commie bureaucrat 😡
No, my own. Been using it for a month or so: data plans in Thailand and Vietnam were crazy expensive so I made one
Yeah 🤝
Pubkeys are free to spin up, I think that’s Wareen’s point?
Maybe new pubkeys can be required to have some POW to not be rejected?
How much power do bureaucrats at the immigration check where you’re leaving a country really have?
I had to shut down my proxy since i had to pack my node and now I’m back using relays directly.
I had forgotten just how much my phone heats up using Damus this way! 🥵