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1 sat \ 8 replies \ @BlokchainB 15 Apr 2023 \ on: Plebstr - Beautiful nostr client for android, ios nostr
Anyone try this yet? I was thinking about downloading this but I’m a damus maxi
It’s already better than Damus imho.
Search is quicker and more reliable. Quite often I search on Damus a valid npub and it finds no one 😔
Zaps are more intuitive in that the Plebstr app asks how much you want to send each time by default. Loading content is faster, and that stacks up each day. Threading of conversations is awesome, since it loads the prior conversation like we all expect from Twitter.
At the very least it’s a good complement to Damus. I love what Damus has built and I’m not knocking Will’s work, it’s just Plebstr is growing quicker and faster to become something else entirely. I believe because it has a larger team working on it.
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It's good, really solid for a new app. The UX feels a little more Android-y than Damus, if that's something you care about.
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One thing that I don't like is that it doesn't appear to be open source, and I don't appear to be able to use a proxy to see what traffic is being sent where (Damus is both open source and I can proxy the traffic). Granted, that could be for better security (e.g. if they're using certificate pinning)
If you care about privacy that might be a reason not to use it for now. Maybe someone from the team can chime in on this.
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I'm not pasting my private key into a closed source client. Who knows what they are doing with it.
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unless you compiled your open source client yourself you don't know what the "open source" client is doing with your key either. the compiled version from the app/play store can be different from the publicly released code and you would never know it.
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Yes, hence the need also to proxy.
With both you can keep an eye out for any unusual looking identifiers being passed around, tie that back to the code and if not, ask questions in public.
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Very true, although that is a more expensive attack to pull of successfully
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There is still work to be done, but for the first version it's already good
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