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Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by jonstaab »

dekervin wrote: post #28

I've tried using snort.social , dog testing it with the intent of recommanding it, but it's basically unusable. Would someone have a good web interface to recommand?

https://coracle.social is the client I work on. It's less well-known, but is pretty feature-complete.

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by snuckr »

dekervin wrote: post #28

I've tried using snort.social , dog testing it with the intent of recommanding it, but it's basically unusable. Would someone have a good web interface to recommand?

I think the most usable web clients are primal.net, coracle.social, and iris.to

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by kevingadd »

kvathupo wrote: post #55
leesalminen wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's weird how "decentralized" means something different to every individual. Having the ability to choose where to host my images is what I'd call decentralized.

As I understand it, the raison d'être of nostr is to use relays to store your data, which is presented on clients. So if a front-end bans you, then you can grab your data off any relay. If imgur shuts down, you're out of luck! Bluesky goes further with the AT protocol for more general data and algorithms iirc

And as it happens, imgur is revising their TOS and deleting a bunch of content

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by Logans_Run »

scsibug wrote: post #57

Nice (blog author here); just heard this showed up on the frontpage from someone on Nostr. If I was writing an update to this, I'd probably point out how much better the clients (especially mobile) have gotten, in such a short span of time. As well as how lightning integration (zaps) are letting us build new capabilities (instead of just cloning twitter) that don't exist anywhere else.

Glad its getting traction, it was a fun read and introduced me to something new (tm). One issue I had about 'Zaps' was the 'pay-to-play' aspect which seemed in discord/disharmony with the OG vision of Solving the Right Problems

There is no blockchain. No proprietary social sign-in. No “real-name policy” No distributed hash table, onion routing, raft consensus, or peer-to-peer protocol. There is just a method of providing simple digitally signed text, and a simple, scalable search service.

I mean I get it aaannnndd 54 lines of Spec etc and there is a need for something like you offer/describe and I'm glad to have stumbled across the link that lead to this blog that leads to the GH

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by dekervin »

jonstaab wrote: post #61
dekervin wrote: post #28

I've tried using snort.social , dog testing it with the intent of recommanding it, but it's basically unusable. Would someone have a good web interface to recommand?

https://coracle.social is the client I work on. It's less well-known, but is pretty feature-complete.

Nice to meet you. First time I hear about coracle.social . The main issue I had with snort is that it takes a lot of time before taking an action into account. It's a non starter for non-geeky people.

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by SnowProblem »

I wish Nostr were invented 30 years ago because it seems like a elegant protocol with room for extensions that could have served as the backend language for Twitter, IRC, FB, and more. But network effects are just so powerful and people post to be seen. Twitter isn't going to willingly open the door to competitors, and so I hope Nostr can find a few unique use cases and communities to let it blossom.

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by Multicomp »

Between this new tool and https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat I am starting to feel like (at least from my filter bubble) that the web may be slightly starting to think about maybe someday turning the corner on centralized-by-default model for building new applications.

And/or it's just my first time seeing a complete pendulum swing on the apocryphal mainframe-pc-mainframe-pc cycle.

Re: Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

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Post by scsibug »

Logans_Run wrote: post #66
scsibug wrote: post #57

Nice (blog author here); just heard this showed up on the frontpage from someone on Nostr. If I was writing an update to this, I'd probably point out how much better the clients (especially mobile) have gotten, in such a short span of time. As well as how lightning integration (zaps) are letting us build new capabilities (instead of just cloning twitter) that don't exist anywhere else.

Glad its getting traction, it was a fun read and introduced me to something new (tm). One issue I had about 'Zaps' was the 'pay-to-play' aspect which seemed in discord/disharmony with the OG vision of Solving the Right Problems There is no blockchain. No proprietary social sign-in. No “real-name policy” No distributed hash table, onion routing, raft consensus, or peer-to-peer protocol. There is just a method of provi…

Lightning already exists; so it is nice that a simple protocol can integrate with it. I view them as complementary - it is good that Nostr does not need crypto, but it is still cool that they can harmonize without changing the core protocol.

It does solve a fundamental incentive problem of "who runs big relays".

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