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Heads up, I have "block newly registered domains" configured in my NextDNS site, so I can't resolve flare.pub. For the future, might be good to register the domain a little while before the launch to avoid this.
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So how will you cope with DMCA takedown requests and what will you do when all major medias companies will sue your ass? You may try to pretend it is not your content and explain how the protocol works and all that but as long as you will host a frontend and own the domain name you will be considered the one to sue.
The sites design is very aesthetically pleasing, well done on that front. Something that put me off a bit was immediately seeing bitcoin influencer content after loading the page.
That's the reason I personally avoid Nostr. I know it's unfair because Nostr itself is actually a cool protocol that has nothing to do with bitcoin, but the stench of that is hard to wash off. I wouldn't want to build something that becomes associated with bitcoin just because of the name of the protocol. It's like whenever there was a reddit/twitter/etc alternative some years ago following outrage, it'd get flooded…
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> “Given the nature of nostr, users cannot recover from a leaked private key and must take greater precaution than they would with a username/password combination.” This is a complete dealbreaker for any end-user product. I don’t understand why crypto/blockchain fans still think it can work.
ah physical key has the same properties and end-users seems to have been accepting that just fine for hundreds of years
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There's a reason why social logins, magic links and SMS login codes are so ubiquitous now - end users want 0 friction getting into their accounts. This increases friction beyond what is currently common practice. No, the public doesn't want nor care about using a key to log in.
Although i have heard of SQRL [1] which purports to be a frictionless way of securely logging in with public private key encryption. I've never seen it discussed here though so I'm unsure if there's significant downside [1]: https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
Both of these do a challenge-response style authentication with a particular website, and wouldn't really work as part of a decentralized system.
You could use the same signing key ordinarily used to sign authentication challenges to sign nostr notes, but then you're back to square 1 really.
Edit: slightly better passkey info here https://developers.yubico.com/Passkeys/How_passkeys_work.htm...
The operating costs of a video platform are huge, who pays for all of this?
I don't even know how to sign up... lol there's an "nsec" field which i have no clue what it is there's a "connect with nsec" button which again, i don't know what it is. and then there's "login with extension" button which does nothing.
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That’s just the nature of Nostr at the moment. It’s very Bitcoin adjacent. There’s significant overlap between Nostr and Bitcoin developers. Also, Bitcoin (through Lightning) is the currency used on Nostr for anything and everything. I can totally see how that’s off putting for normal people though.
It's so off putting I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I wouldn't even curiously browse a landing page of an otherwise interesting project beyond the point I notice that something is mildly "cryptocurrency-adjacent", or it becomes obvious that it has involvement from devs who also enjoy working on blockchains. Thanks for the heads up.
I love that nostr identity is not tied to an instance (unlike activitypub/mastondon/fediverse)! However ignoring some (IMO) fundamental problems (because they are not problems until you hit scale) like hosting, somewhat moderation and letting that be solved "layer above" is a mistake (IMO) it will probably create non standardized APIs for paying for hosting or sth. As for community it is heavily based on bitcoin/ligh…
Can some one explain how to create an user account? WTF is nsec?