Just got reminded today how far we have come as the Nostr dev community.
Early on when nostr.land (npub1gt9…lxjt) was the earliest proper paid relay, jb55 (npub1xts…kk5s) was making Damus in beta, I contributed the LNbits backend to Cameri (npub1qqq…n47m)'s Nostream, Astral was the best Nostr app at the time, Bob2 (npub13ch…dsaw)'s media hosting service was early, the userbase was still small, and I was struggling to convince Derek Ross (npub18am…p424) to get on Nostr... I could go on and on.
And now we have a lot of different types of apps, reliable relays, much more content, better usability. And it only keeps getting better.
🫡
semisol
npub122…cgrkj
2025-06-17 21:58:39
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
2025-06-17 21:58:39Event JSON
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