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I figured it out. @npub1zaf…26k5 @npub1xts…kk5s @npub18m7…q955 there’s a bug in Damus that is causing both to show up as Pablo. The second account is Nos, but on Damus, it’s showing as Pablo with his name, his prof pic, and even a verified check mark. But the real Pablo is “PABLOF7z” and the other Pablo is “Pablo” lol.
Might be a caching issue, but I’ve seen this a couple days in a row now.

2024-05-30 21:48:30

Actually confused about who is @npub1l2v…ajft and who is @npub1pu3…tfch
This could be an issue with how some apps (Damus?) render usernames vs nicknames vs names. But it is highlighting a weird aspect to Nostr that I’m not really enjoying.

2024-05-30 21:45:45

I’m against e-cash now. I’m not using e-cash as a layer on top of lightning as a layer on top of Bitcoin. I’m sick of the gymnastics.
All that work just for e-cash mints to be forced to have back doors or shut down for laundering money (true). #note1kh6…jhgs

2024-05-29 21:47:46

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Wow, I didn’t realize you were working on Nos now! Are you able to use your SDK at all or is it pretty much native code?

2024-05-26 15:04:28

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That’s what I’m thinking “federation” is just a blood pact of “if I go to jail, we all go to jail”. How does that help the situation at all? If a coin mixer is money laundering, so is e-cash. E-cash is even more custodial than a mixer is.

2024-05-20 23:40:46

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This makes a lot of sense. If a small follower account is followed by a large number of influential people, they should rightfully be seen as a higher number

2024-05-20 23:37:26

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Isn’t Blossom just an NIP for how to manage media endpoints? How is it different from the “media metadata” NIPs?

2024-05-16 19:31:27

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He was also only concerned with digital cash. I don’t think he cared about a global savings account at all.

2024-05-16 03:28:30

Zaps are Conspicuous Consumption
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption

2024-05-13 18:36:43

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@npub12rv…85vg @npub1h0u…rwx8 would love your thoughts on this

2024-05-13 18:30:35

How will e-cash survive the money laundering allegations? Aren’t fedimints and cashu mints providing the same exact service as coin mixers?
#note10nj…mwud

2024-05-12 23:11:04

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Because I don’t want to check my Nostr feed 24/7. I want a way to just see the highlights since I last logged in.

2024-05-10 04:07:59

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This one is linked at least

2024-05-09 23:40:36

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😂 They tend to get into a lot of topics related to nephilim and ancient bloodlines and such too.
She also continues that topic on this one too https://youtu.be/YApe52LpBhI?si=_JHV4N-KQwH6jj1V
It sort of reminds me of “Babylon’s Banksters” by Joseph Farrell. Nothing is *just* material, right?

2024-05-08 20:08:12

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I fully agree with not overloading event kinds! I’ve been trying to evangelize one event kind for https://webxdc.org to handle a wide range of interactivity needed.

2024-05-05 03:48:28

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I tested with my gf and it worked shockingly well! Have they really still not open sourced it yet? They’ve been planning to open source for like 3 years 😭

2024-05-02 17:57:08

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Yeah Primal has good design, but it isn’t as reliable for me in terms of actually registering simple actions. Like I have followed people on Primal and it doesn’t actually follow them.

2024-05-02 17:54:35

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I second this. I have sent probably $200 in super chats on YouTube. My YouTube account just used the same card I had on file for paying for youtube premium. Zero friction.
Maybe let people pay in Fiat but use BTC on their behalf on the backend like Strike? Then let users “upgrade” to using BTC directly if they choose to? Only have friction for the power user. Normies get zero friction.

2024-05-01 22:57:24

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Which app(s) are you using?

2024-05-01 22:49:56

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@npub1jlr…ynqn good feedback ^

2024-05-01 22:48:28

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1. Anyone can spread your note anywhere they want without any kind of authentication
2. Every note is proven to be from you
The fact that both of these are true is sort of a nightmare tbh. It’s why I am hoping that private notes (like locked twitter accounts) will become the commonplace. I don’t think the above scenario is compatible with normie usage.

2024-04-28 18:01:47

Nostur is a really underrated iOS client.
It has a ton of features, but they’re all placed in areas where you would expect to find them, so it doesn’t feel burdensome. And because it has so many features, it feels delightfully unopinionated.
Another thing Nostur has that surprisingly few clients have in general is a well organized notifications view. See all the reactions, follows, replies, quotes, etc all separated into their own tab. So simple.
It was the first app to do multi-account on iOS too. @npub1n0s…lahe is doing great work!

2024-04-27 16:44:02

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I closed the app and opened it again and now I can’t recreate it 🤷🏼‍♂️

2024-04-27 16:42:58

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I checked and I’m on the latest App Store version. Not on testflight

2024-04-27 16:29:29

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Unrelated, but when I switch accounts in Nostur, my profile pic doesn’t switch but everything else does

2024-04-27 16:10:48

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Afaik, only Amethyst has a sticker feature. And that’s the closest thing to an ideal gif library out there. Primal and Damus at least don’t have gifs from what I can tell. Ability to link preview a gif url isn’t the same thing as a proper gif library integration imo.
A Giphy-like infrastructure can and should exist on nostr

2024-04-26 20:40:11

For developers that oppose using Nostr for DMs, you need to at least give people the ability to put more than one link in their bio so they can include a messaging app ID or something.
From what I have seen, app developers artificially limit bios to just one link because they don’t want people putting “shitcoin” addresses in their bios and thus “threatening” Bitcoin adoption.
But disallowing custom links in bios is a really negative experience for many reasons. Nostr could legitimately compete with Linktree but it’s artificially held back for crybaby reasons. #note128v…k2ux

2024-04-26 19:47:14

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Last time I used Keet, it just worked really really poorly. Maybe it has improved since then though!

2024-04-25 18:34:49

Manyverse and the new version of SSB is no more.
> Building social media or social networks is not interesting to me anymore. These platforms seem like they're mostly strangers talking to strangers, where relationships are dependent on shared interests or shared opinions.
That is the crux of it. At some point, we just get tired of talking to strangers. What’s the point? Investing so heavily in something that pays so little. Imagine if we invested that much time into our real life connections.
Can Nostr facilitate *that*? I think it can. I would love to see municipalities run nostr relays for their communities. Let tax dollars pay for it the server upkeep.
https://www.manyver.se/blog/2024-04-05

2024-04-25 06:55:27

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The sign-in would only be using a device. So way less friction. And maybe they’re built in such a way that they have no cache at all.
Yeah I think they’d be a relay too. Because similar to phone booths, you’d need to be able for ppl to write back to you. So maybe using that one NIP it can signal “hey I’m contacting from this relay” (or “relay network” bc the terminals would probably all be gossiped in a city at least)

2024-04-23 06:31:06

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Btw is nostr stuff gonna be runnable with vaporware?

2024-04-23 03:26:56

📣 We need public NOSTR terminals
With landline phones, the address book used to be separate from the communication device. You just had your little black book and that’s all you needed. Didn’t really matter what phone you used.
THAT was real freedom. And Nostr can bring it back.
Every home, library, street corner should have a terminal. All I need is my signing device to sign the message.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/06/23/landline-telephone-holdouts/

2024-04-19 08:33:14

It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with the timeline.
Algorithms need to get smarter.

2024-04-19 08:30:21

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That is how some custom feeds work in BlueSky. And given the way custom feeds work there (they are services that ppl run afaik), the equivalent would be DVMs I believe (cc @npub1wmr…g240 )

2024-04-19 08:28:41

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Sort of the holy grail of a thick client. That, and tracking what you have seen and haven’t seen / remembering your place in the timeline.

2024-04-15 02:26:49

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I didn’t mean racial/ethnic/cultural tension in what I wrote a couple messages up btw. I meant diversity of thought.
I think cultural diversity is always going to be difficult unless you give people an option to simply “tap out” via the internet

2024-04-14 18:34:03

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I think Mutiny has shown that it optimized for both. Their UX is the most similar to venmo or cash app than any other wallet I’ve used.
Keep the maximum freedom settings in the advanced menus

2024-04-14 18:28:04

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The risk of course is in surrounding yourself only with like minded people. In prior generations, you had to regularly socialize with those that you might despise. Thesis: This tension made us better/stronger people. I think Gurdjieff would definitely agree

2024-04-12 08:15:02

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Addresses do exist on the monero blockchain. It’s part of the reason that the UX is so good.
Grin doesn’t have addresses on chain and the UX is not as good. https://grin.mw

2024-04-11 01:41:46

Idea for a geo-fenced Nostr Relay:
1. User enters in their mailing address to the relay sign up page
2. If address is within a certain city / area code range, the relay presents a payment screen
3. After payment is received, the service mails a physical access code to the user’s address (this could all be automated)
4. User receives mail and enters access code on relay sign up page
5. Every year, the user renews access by following the same process again.
This would work really well for smaller towns that don’t want to get brigaded by bigger cities.

2024-04-10 18:41:08

Re-contextualize things during new user onboarding. Basic social media actions take on new meaning in a decentralized network.
Example: when they “like” a note for the first time, pop a hint that explains “when you like something, it signals to your followers that they might also want to see it. Your actions help to shape their algorithm”.

2024-04-10 18:31:43

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Are you saying we should 3 names? Two was already one too many 😂
#nevent1q…r8c5

2024-04-08 20:06:30

How does NASA explain the fact that the moon is the exact size and position to fully block the sun when aligned?
Do they think it’s a random accident or what? #note1y5k…c9xy

2024-04-08 19:55:58

Urbit-native Lightning
https://blog.tirrel.io/blog/urbit-native-lightning-network #note1f4a…wa9k

2024-04-06 19:46:39

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>When you receive a Silent Payment you have to go through every transaction, compute the shared secret for each input and compare to the outputs until you find the right match.
Would this happen on the user device? If cake wallet is running the compute for this, doesn’t it then make it non-private? Because cake would know what you’re looking for

2024-04-04 20:43:32

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Hmm… so my friend signed up on Damus and his account seems not to have instantiated right. Because I don’t see following and followers or relays on his account when I view on Damus.
And you signed up on Coracle, but I don’t see relays on your profile when I view on Damus..
@npub1xts…kk5s @npub1jlr…ynqn

2024-04-04 16:53:10

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I actually don’t see any relays listed on your profile! I bet there is an issue there. Which app did you make the account on?

2024-04-04 16:50:01

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One onboarded to @npub12vk…pugg . Is an introductions post required? If so, that should be pushed by the UI of the app! Is it a full proof method to get plugged in?
The other onboarded to @npub18m7…q955 and their account is actually bugged (doesn’t show following or follows). Maybe profile didn’t get instantiated in relays fully?
@npub1jmq…l6g5 brought up a good point. Could it be that not creating a lightning wallet flags you as a bot? Or that new people are just inherently outside the WOT and get excluded?

2024-04-02 18:17:20

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Not specifically about the ranch, but this podcast with a Navajo ranger is super interesting https://youtu.be/5jb-2yQixVU?si=6bgw3qvygjUwHG5_

2024-04-02 18:13:56

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Should be noted that it’s totally possible to follow the law while using Nostr. Nostr doesn’t require anyone to break the law.

2024-03-29 17:44:57

What happened to the Nostr “better DMs” discussions? Has the debate been settled on which NIP(s) to use? Or did the debate just exhaust itself and it’s on hold for now?

2024-03-29 16:42:54

“And it comes to pass in the journeying of the ark, that Moses says, ‘Rise, O Yehovah, and your enemies are scattered, and those hating you flee from your presence.’ And in its resting he says, ‘Return, O Yehovah, [to] the myriads, the thousands of Israel.’”
‭‭Numbers‬ ‭10‬:‭35‬-‭36‬ ‭‬‬
https://bible.com/bible/821/num.10.35-36.YLT98

2024-03-27 18:48:22

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I’m personally very excited by the amount of jobs the escrow services would be able to provide. Tons of stay at home job opportunities for people

2024-03-27 17:30:17

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Are there any plans to integrate it with an escrow? https://bitescrow.app

2024-03-27 17:27:18

Has development on Nostr marketplace continued?

2024-03-27 16:26:13

Community Notes is by far the best thing about Twitter today

2024-03-23 03:46:18

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Now? Nothing. Maybe lightning via chaumian mints.
Ark might be better later on though https://arkdev.info/docs/

2024-03-22 17:50:10

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I like the idea of using the caching service for more superfluous things like follower counts

2024-03-19 18:17:34

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It’s about taking steps to earn trust. Open Sourcing the code is one step, yes. Because you’re allowing people to run their own code if they want to. But like U said above there are other ways of earning trust if you don’t want to open source code.
It’s not “all or nothing” with trust. If you hide your identity, have a scammy website, AND don’t share the code… well that’s three strikes in terms of earning trust

2024-03-19 01:53:08

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Is the Star a badge? So it’ll show up on any nostr client that supports badges?

2024-03-18 21:18:41

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The idea to have some way to distinguish AI from human is a good one though. That’s not saying AI is bad, just good to clearly mark it

2024-03-18 18:28:11

Many people are quite excited by the notion of “total freedom” to say anything and act however they want, not knowing that everyone is muting them because their speech and behavior is abhorrent

2024-03-17 16:23:43

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Urbit is a totally new Operating System. So naturally, it will be one step forward, two steps back in terms of performance.
Having said that though:
- Nock can be run on bare metal. The only reason we use C today is bc it’s not running on bare metal. So they don’t “bail out” to C for performance, they just use C as the translation from Nock to machine code if that makes sense. https://x.com/rovnys/status/1766183255097905157?s=46
- They have recently achieved 1 GB / second read speeds of data https://x.com/hastuc_dibtux/status/1765075518637154374?s=46
A stone crumbling is not possible in this project because of the way it was designed. They designed the whole system together as a whole and then worried about performance later. Over time, one team has found a slightly more performant way to design the system, but they are still following the same design. It’s called Plunder. https://x.com/sol_plunder/status/1704554384930058537?s=46

2024-03-17 00:43:51

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I don’t think anybody thinks that lol

2024-03-17 00:00:49

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It’s about establishing trust / confidence. When you’re a major company with established business processes, beholden to consumer protections and such, you can afford to go closed source.
But the only way a lone developer is going to achieve that same level of confidence is by showing the code. Or maybe if they’re super popular and lots of people love them and use their own reputation to inspire trust. But you have to do something at least. Trust isn’t just blindly given

2024-03-16 23:55:20

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There is a limited amount of address space in urbit. So it is analogous to land in that sense. You just need something permanent that says this address belongs to this person. There are ways that they can move off of ethereum and use something natively urbit for that. Ethereum was just used to bootstrap it

2024-03-16 20:23:23

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Urbit interests me because it is the only tech project ever made that has simplicity as part of the core design. Over time, it will only get more simple as well.
It’s just a fundamentally different ethos from anything else out there. Difficult to compare

2024-03-16 20:21:39

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Urbit has a native bitcoin wallet. Repeat: a team made a bitcoin wallet with Hoon. And soon an urbit native lightning wallet will be released as well.
The goal is to move the address space off of ethereum and onto an urbit native chain as well. NFTs have very few use cases, but it turns out that one of them is digital land deeds.

2024-03-16 20:18:06

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Can’t get mad when people don’t trust your software then.
Some people post closed source apps with a fake / scammy looking websites and no link to a real person that made the thing. Like at least do SOMETHING to inspire confidence

2024-03-15 23:17:16

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I recommend paying the $5 just to see the onboarding experience. Maybe record it so you can go back and see what you think as you see it for the first time.

2024-03-13 21:09:59

I see more spam on twitter than I do on nostr. Which is insane to think about, considering they nostr is completely open, decentralized, and anyone can make as many accounts as they want.
Web of trust works.

2024-03-13 20:02:03

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I use the dot com site almost every day to link to stuff like your post nostr.com/#nevent1q…gqlw

2024-03-13 18:50:26

Confession: I have no idea why Nostr clients have a username as well as a regular name

2024-03-12 17:51:43

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Btw, you should connect with @npub1n0s…lahe about how he got custom feeds implemented on Nostur. They are crude / naive implementations iirc, but still, worth looking into

2024-03-12 17:49:13

As an iOS user, I like different things about each client. I want them all to combine.
- Damus has the custom database for efficient device-first functionality.
- Primal has the caching service for speed.
- Nos Social has the user-first design that (for example) respects delete requests
- Nostur pioneered the on-device custom feeds and algorithms
More on-device compute utilization with cache only for supplementing superfluous things like follower counts. More respect for user intentions with things like delete requests, edit requests, etc.

2024-03-11 16:56:40

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I agree that being tightly coupled to bitcoin isn’t ideal. But I am not sure that it is in the spec. Ideally it would just require a generic “authorization” that could or could not be provided by bitcoin or some other financial platform

2024-03-11 03:04:05

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I thought DVMs addressed this use case already. Maybe not though.
I would rather the relays stay simple and not get added complexity regarding that.

2024-03-10 16:47:42

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I would like plain text formats. Markdown etc.
Other than that, I just ask that it please doesn’t have a “str” name. PLEASE

2024-03-09 03:47:29

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Urbit on Nostr?

2024-03-08 21:54:59

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I love how this is simultaneously helpful and also a subtle roast of activity pub

2024-03-03 01:51:25

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Yep! I was right.
“We don't believe in controlling you and your games. Here, you won't be locked out of titles you paid for, or constantly asked to prove you own them - this is DRM-free gaming.”
https://www.gog.com/about_gog

2024-03-03 01:49:13

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I think the Good Old Games (GOG) store specializes in DRM free games.

2024-03-02 19:21:24

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Does pkarr also help with Sybil resistance?

2024-03-01 06:01:20

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Check out the Blurry Creatures podcast. I think you’ll dig it. Everything from a biblical perspective https://youtube.com/@blurrycreatures?si=100yMCcRHmMjgvAy

2024-03-01 04:17:17

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Regarding Christian vs Jewish, try to focus on common values rather than specific clubs. People love cargo cults but focusing on values is far more productive. I believe in the messiah but I am learning to follow Torah. Sounds weird, I know

2024-02-29 17:30:36

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I understand what you mean, but we need a jumping off point. Some things in life really are just boring old FACTS. Like the title of a movie and when it was released

2024-02-29 17:26:50

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If Gab was smart, they would just create their own version of Giphy.
I think something like this may exist on Nostr. A “sticker” library kind of thing

2024-02-28 21:47:05

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Isn’t that a perfectly sensible policy? Seems like Nostr relays could do the same to be sustainable. Media uploads only for subscribers

2024-02-26 18:32:37

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Maybe fork Snort and make it only show Satcom events? Then when you click a button in the Satcom extension drop-down, it then opens this web app

2024-02-25 06:59:03

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Hey Pablo, would you be interested in presenting Wikifreedia to the Knowledge Standards Foundation? It’s headed up by Larry Sanger one of the co-founders of Wikipedia. I think they would love to learn about your design and thinking. They meet every Friday at 2pm EST.