Bullish nostr, relays seem like a good trade of to allow many people to run clients (very light, not much data as all you need are your keys to find the messages associated to yourself) without having one central entity controlling all communication (like Twitter for example) as the relays store and propagate the messages through the network
as the relays store and propagate the messages through the network
Small (but important) correction: Nostr is not a federated protocol; relays don't talk to each other whatsoever. [0] Federation is unnecessary, because Nostr makes it extremely easy to post the same message to multiple relays.
As much as I love the idea and want to see it flourish, the app is not very good at the moment. I don’t even have a simple way to view my own profile without searching for myself.
You should have 4 tabs down the bottom of the app;
Home, Encrypted DMs, Search and Notifications
Just search for UnitOfAccount in the search tab if you want to find my profile, though I can not see myself using that platform even a fraction of the amount of time I will use SN. At least until it’s a bit more fleshed out.
They have a Bitcoin tip button that also doesn’t seem to work at all.
I personally think Stacker News is magnitudes better, but that may just be that I prefer these kinds of platforms over twitter-esque platforms.
So you need to run your own client/node. Is there a lot of data growing over time?
I don't think many people will use it if they need to run a node though. But if it works in a bunch of social media platforms I guess it doesn't matter as the Normie's gonna norm
They don't need to run their own node. A client can be hosted by an operator – you can access it similar to how you access Twitter, except that it's just a client, you can switch to another client whenever you wish.
More than just a social network can be built on nostr. It gives you control of your own ideintity ( with public key/private key), so any reputation based system can be built on it, for example. Arcade City and Degen Rides are two p2p taxi services that are using #nostr too. for example.
Bullish nostr, relays seem like a good trade of to allow many people to run clients (very light, not much data as all you need are your keys to find the messages associated to yourself) without having one central entity controlling all communication (like Twitter for example) as the relays store and propagate the messages through the network
Small (but important) correction: Nostr is not a federated protocol; relays don't talk to each other whatsoever. [0] Federation is unnecessary, because Nostr makes it extremely easy to post the same message to multiple relays.
[0] = https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#how-does-nostr-work
Fair enough, I appreciate the link!
iOS users can join TestFlight and trial an app called “Damus” to try out this platform.
https://damus.io/
If anyone does, I just signed up and you can follow me with my public key here:
npub1zq8qh7ktexq8mgjre9nkv9aull9kngpjtsfyfurypdlpggv7shwqt3yd60
I installed Damus as well. I searched for your key but I don’t see how I can add you?
As much as I love the idea and want to see it flourish, the app is not very good at the moment. I don’t even have a simple way to view my own profile without searching for myself.
You should have 4 tabs down the bottom of the app;
Home, Encrypted DMs, Search and Notifications
Just search for UnitOfAccount in the search tab if you want to find my profile, though I can not see myself using that platform even a fraction of the amount of time I will use SN. At least until it’s a bit more fleshed out.
They have a Bitcoin tip button that also doesn’t seem to work at all.
I personally think Stacker News is magnitudes better, but that may just be that I prefer these kinds of platforms over twitter-esque platforms.
My client doesn't recognize your pub key. Wanna try mine?
547fcc5c7e655fe7c83da5a812e6332f0a4779c87bf540d8e75a4edbbf36fe4a
I can’t seem to find you either
Found you
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It's weird, it's like we have different pub key formats. Yours starts with npub and mine does not.
@jb55 can I not find a Damus pubkey in astral.ninja?
use https://damus.io/key to get a hex string from a bech32 string
Maybe this could also work well with monitoring notifications? Can private channels exist within nostr?
I like the idea.
So you need to run your own client/node. Is there a lot of data growing over time?
I don't think many people will use it if they need to run a node though. But if it works in a bunch of social media platforms I guess it doesn't matter as the Normie's gonna norm
They don't need to run their own node. A client can be hosted by an operator – you can access it similar to how you access Twitter, except that it's just a client, you can switch to another client whenever you wish.
This looks cool but how its this different from Twitter, besides being decentralized?
How is a plane different from a bus besides that it can fly?
More than just a social network can be built on nostr. It gives you control of your own ideintity ( with public key/private key), so any reputation based system can be built on it, for example. Arcade City and Degen Rides are two p2p taxi services that are using #nostr too. for example.
The simplest way to start using #nostr is to use the web app astral.ninja
If you have ios, there is an app Damus.
A list of clients is here: https://github.com/vishalxl/Nostr-Clients-Features-List