I mostly want a place to write my thoughts, with the option of sharing my views with close acquaintances. Is this possible using a basic laptop and nostr? If so, what would the process look like?
110 sats \ 1 reply \ @ae52f929c 14 Jul 2023
I think this would almost be possible. If you wanted to build a completely private blog that only you have access to, you could build a blog system that just uses Nostr direct messages as storage: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/04.md. The problem is I am not completely sure how you would share certain things with friends but I do think it might be possible with enough time to put into it to think about how to do that. Probably a few clever solutions ready to be put into action.
Nostr itself isn't anything more than a protocol, so an app or website would need to be built on top of it that would allow you to do this.
It would be cool to see such an app or website.
Just got done doing research on this. https://github.com/block-core/blockcore-notes might be the closest app to what you are looking for right now. Here is their main site: https://notes.blockcore.net/connect.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sb OP 14 Jul 2023
This looks promising - I'll definitely check this out
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125 sats \ 2 replies \ @afterhours 14 Jul 2023
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/566
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @sb OP 14 Jul 2023
This might be beyond my technical capabilities I'll be honest haha but thanks for the interesting read
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @afterhours 14 Jul 2023
it’s pretty abstract but from a high level I think it’s one way to achieve a private blog on nostr. it has the primitives for authorizing a set of users’ access to a group (blog). interestingly it would probably be a collaborative blog, where all authorized users could post.
so many interesting opportunities for building on nostr. the possibilities are endless!
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 14 Jul 2023
You could host a private relay and only store the events for your blog there
To give others access, use some form of authentication to access that relay
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sb OP 14 Jul 2023
What is the best resource to learn how to do this?
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