Alex Gleason

I create Fediverse software that empowers people online.

I'm vegan btw.

Note: If you have a question for me, please tag me publicly. This gives the opportunity for others to chime in, and bystanders to learn.

Public Key

npub15ph30la3n069s4l9ja9v3wcmaftcrztcdm4ytrjy800cc02n80fsqvkw0q

NIP-05 Address

alex_at_gleasonator.com@mostr.pub

NIP-57 Address

alexgleason@getalby.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs2qmchl7cehazc2ljewjkghvd754up39uxa6j93ezrhhuv84fnh5cppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv94drx7

Publishing to

nos.lol

relay.mostr.pub

Author Public Key

npub15ph30la3n069s4l9ja9v3wcmaftcrztcdm4ytrjy800cc02n80fsqvkw0q

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Last Notes

2023-03-05 01:35:45

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Bot sockpuppet detected. 🐍

2023-03-05 01:06:33

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>investing time on these boards
Let me be clear, you're not doing ANYTHING unless you're building. Absolutely nothing at all. There are two ways to approach a problem. Either you BUILD, or you COMPLAIN at other people who are building. If you're not building, you can feel free to be comfortable and complacent with the way things are, and watch some TV or go for a walk outside. You are not free to make demands, and you are not entitled to anything. It's very simple.

2023-03-05 00:42:30

Fedi drama 🍿: shitposter.club defederated the Mostr bridge. Totally within their right - everyone is free here. But #[0] has taken it as an attack on his freedoms, and has started a harassment campaign to react with a 🐍 emoji to all shitposter.club posts.
So far this campaign has attracted roughly… 2 users. So here is my counter-campaign: everyone who reacts with a 🐍 emoji is a sock puppet account controlled by Bot, who is definitely a man, and thought to be a troll sent by the Azerbaijan government to divide the United States.
They tried to use the 🐍 emoji to cancel Taylor Swift, and she responded by incorporating it into her show: https://youtu.be/XCMwgEyUC2A?t=242
I’ve had enough of this behavior, lmao.

2023-03-04 18:56:01

So, they built Medium on Nostr: https://blogstack.io
All that’s missing is the ability to zap an article.

2023-03-04 04:29:22

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But actually I liked Vista because I was learning Photoshop at the same time, and I had a lot of fun trying to recreate Windows Vista designs. I just liked the aesthetic.

2023-03-04 04:26:40

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Windows Vista was the peak of design, I don’t care what they say.
https://media.gleasonator.com/d796f0f8f6c3b322257c96bdcca2bd783bf4a6e376ead8db8108c30226735907.png

2023-03-04 04:24:41

Ah the warm and comforting nostalgia of proprietary OS.
https://media.gleasonator.com/754e80002091d04c74dbab8c6b35c0991a06c22901d4f7272056815818658aac.png

2023-03-03 23:23:49

Alright guys, at this point I consider the bridge to be stable and feature-complete, a 1.0. It does all the basic things and continues to survive your barrage of shitposts. On to the next thing!
https://media.gleasonator.com/7329cdabd714da33540468bd8e9464152f6176169857c6c8e55c242ce1d54329.png

2023-03-03 16:42:01

You know what Nostr doesn’t do? Put mentions in the text content.

2023-03-03 16:00:50

The main reason Nostr users bridged to AP can’t have better usernames is because of this: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/changeable-usernames/830/9

2023-03-03 15:08:04

https://media.gleasonator.com/982e77ff8ae478cf7f8eb57fd906a4617c1636318c05df6ccbe6a56e958f0db5.mp4

2023-03-03 06:27:38

This.
https://media.gleasonator.com/003a359f1fa5c7b2a78cc1d3ea763f100034842570de81738ce423f53d643a83.jpg

2023-03-03 06:11:53

Still hardly can believe that Mastodon for Dummies is real.

2023-03-03 05:49:40

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Send screenshots

2023-03-03 04:04:17

Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling episode 3 is out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-witch-trials-of-j-k-rowling/id1671691064

2023-03-03 03:23:19

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You can’t just say that.

2023-03-03 01:26:49

🤔 https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/mozilla-leads-mastodon-app-mammoths-pre-seed-funding/

2023-03-02 19:29:13

https://gamerant.com/hogwarts-legacy-house-ties-issue/

2023-03-02 16:46:10

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Btw, Nostr has encrypted DMs already which even the Fediverse doesn’t have yet. It’s way easier to do when the user has a real pubkey and is already signing events.

2023-03-02 16:43:44

Nostr discovery: anyone can take someone else’s event from one relay and put it onto another relay. There’s no authentication, it’s how the protocol works. We trust that a pubkey said something, not whether they wanted you to see it.
Therefore if you get into a private relay, you could take an event from that private relay and simply insert it onto a public relay. Wacky!
To mitigate this, a user can delete a message. And you could also take the deletion event and put it onto another relay, and most well-behaved relays will stop showing the event and never show it again. But interesting this can happen in the firs place.
The lesson is that private events HAVE to be encrypted if you want them to be private. This makes private groups about as hard to implement as they would be on the Fediverse. You’d likely do some libsignal thing which becomes painful to scale after there are about 100 participants in the group.
(Public groups could be done in a weekend, and there are already public group chats on Nostr)

2023-03-02 13:53:06

Good morning fedinostrsphere.

2023-03-02 05:47:32

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It is planned, after the bridge is finished.

2023-03-02 05:44:27

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I’ve been thinking about it. I don’t want to hardcode “mostr.pub” into Soapbox. Instead Nostr actors should identify as Nostr users over federation, then Soapbox applies special treatment to those users. That’s a lot of work though, so I’m still deciding.

2023-03-02 05:40:23

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It doesn’t support HTML is the problem.

2023-03-02 05:38:53

So, does this mean we could finally have Minds on the Fediverse bridged through Nostr? I should try adding their relay to the bridge.

2023-03-02 04:03:04

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I posted like 5 minutes ago. It’s still going, but even $1 per shitpost is pretty incredible.
https://media.gleasonator.com/4c28aee1385f827bc254126b91f918e03867e124fed4623e199f2892f1f956e3.png

2023-03-02 04:00:31

Okay, zaps are awesome.

2023-03-02 03:26:29

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So realistically, a user is not going to enter a lud06 into a profile field, they’re going to enter a lud16 most likely.

2023-03-02 03:19:33

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How do I get the thing that goes into a Nostr profile from that? It looks like this: LNURL1DP68GURN8GHJ7AMPD3KX2AR0VEEKZAR0WD5XJTNRDAKJ7TNHV4KXCTTTDEHHWM30D3H82UNVWQHHW6TWDE5KUEMZD3HHWEM4DCURVNYWCP4

2023-03-02 03:04:11

How do I get the LNURL from alby? I want to make zaps work on the bridge, but I need to be able to test it.

2023-03-02 03:00:00

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I will. Just let me finish the bridge first. Also, give me money.

2023-03-02 02:53:27

Mostr bridge now support deletes in both directions. Believe it or not, it works.

2023-03-01 20:31:32

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#[0] It comes with an included packet of HRT.

2023-03-01 20:19:31

Hey guys I just got this great book in the mail, gonna be reading to see if I can figure out what the Mastadon thing is all about.
https://media.gleasonator.com/9a86058e01c1487cd211251bb79315a85e0cb9aab4e4a3f7bc05bd7c03460650.jpg

2023-03-01 20:11:19

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#[0] #[1] If you’re going to store files on it at least make it a different kind of event.

2023-03-01 20:08:07

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#[0] #[1] I hate the idea that it’s something I would be expected to parse in the text body of post if clients actually did this. Clients don’t actually do this, right?

2023-03-01 19:59:12

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Yeah more like cringe64

2023-03-01 19:57:33

#[0] Putting this is the readme…

2023-03-01 19:53:33

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#[0] #[1] I hate that.

2023-03-01 19:51:21

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#[0] What the ever loving fuck is that.

2023-03-01 16:04:10

Watch #[0] ‘s amazing IndieGoGo campaign.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/compliance-comix/
https://media.gleasonator.com/569984763e85b7568ded088148183cc1e5abf447172f47d1632b398e1cf87c96.mp4

2023-03-01 14:36:47

#[0] This is truly amazing.

2023-03-01 13:11:38

He who MUST not be named, he who SHOULD not be named, and he who MAY not be named.

2023-03-01 13:06:16

#[0] The network which must not be named.

2023-03-01 06:33:10

Here’s the amount of code it takes to validate only the most basic 5 ActivityPub objects (200 LoC), plus the amount of code it takes to validate a Nostr event (19 LoC).
https://media.gleasonator.com/ae6561a23048d0dadfe60ac304b5a9d41ae35b52d495ec9df9de9f6e4ae59f65.png
https://media.gleasonator.com/4ab58d407ff677b7335308bd4705c57c26efafa0d9021def78776515b96e20c5.png

2023-03-01 06:24:34

nostr nostr nostr nostr nostr GASP. nostr nostr nostr nosr

2023-03-01 05:43:45

I’m seeing events from Mostr published on other relays like damus. I can’t reproduce it from my bridge. I wonder if someone is mirroring the events?

2023-03-01 05:20:33

The Mostr bridge is now being published on 3 relays:- wss://relay.mostr.pub (run by me)- wss://nostr.poster.place #[0]- wss://relay.shitforce.one #[1]You can connect to any or all of them to ensure fediverse shitposts make it to your nostrsphere.

2023-03-01 04:24:42

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#[0] #[1] #[2] I’m going to publish the bridge onto additional relays to improve the reliability of it.

2023-02-28 23:29:55

Quote posts and reposts from the bridge now show up in Nostr clients properly.
https://media.gleasonator.com/0b690447a12409aa0489f7f8fd7a00d15934a7927e3a170f67214938fa94dda7.png

2023-02-28 23:29:08

test quoat
RT: https://gleasonator.com/objects/1643da1c-fcaa-46f9-a3d1-ab5ea32b2e07
#[1]

2023-02-28 21:41:26

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#[0] #[1] Glad you’re liking it!

2023-02-28 21:40:47

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#[0] #[1] Trying to decide how to do that still. I think attachments should be a tag, but Iris wants them in the post content.

2023-02-28 21:39:26

Nostr posts get properly linkified now through the bridge.
RT: https://mostr.pub/objects/45a29491264912042131e5c5ed7d56279c1b618f3b46b1a1c1f2b2fd2d5801b1

2023-02-28 18:11:43

#[0] #[1] LD signatures is also the thing that had “a major security vulnerability” in Mastodon and whose draft spec says “only a masochist would implement this” (paraphrased, but not joking)

2023-02-28 17:49:44

2023-02-28 16:47:43

Update: I’ve become convinced that numbers are actually a better design choice than words for event types, since numbers can have the same name but you can deprecate the old one. Eg instead of “repost” and “repost_but_better” you can just go from 6 to 7 and they’re called “repost (deprecated)” and “repost”.
“p” and “e” are still questionable.

2023-02-28 13:57:38

Good morning. Is the bridge still alive?

2023-02-28 05:54:47

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#[0] If someone follows you on Nostr do you get a notification (in any app)?

2023-02-28 05:53:04

Do Nostr users see follow notifications from Event<3>? Trying to decide if I should implement Event<3> for bridged accounts.

2023-02-28 05:51:28

Iris needs to fix their reposting situation and at least support the Event<1> mention.

2023-02-28 05:01:46

test

2023-02-28 02:48:55

Mostr has served nearly 500K requests in the past 24 hours.

2023-02-28 02:27:49

#[0] > Next, we are going to make Mastodon clients work on Nostr. Not just Soapbox, all of them. This will require a middleware service that acts like a Mastodon "instance" and talks to Nostr relays behind the scenes.

2023-02-27 22:35:37

#[0] You can talk back and forth.

2023-02-27 22:24:48

Fediverse users are the best stress test EVER. It’s not even been a day since the bridge, and we already have hellthreads with over 100 users.

2023-02-27 18:22:11

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#[0] #[1] The bridge failed to fetch the data. Wait an hour and try again. Responses are cached for 1 hour.

2023-02-27 18:19:52

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Developing on the Fediverse is too hard. Nostr is 10x easier. You can integrate it into a blog like it’s nothing. This is the dream people had for Mastodon in the beginning, that we would federate everything. That dream is actually possible on Nostr. But a specification isn’t enough - the past few months the community has proved that Nostr is viable by developing real software for it. So yes, it’s more viable because it’s easier, and because it has a large developer base that is constantly growing. This is simply not seen on ActivityPub.

2023-02-27 18:06:18

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#[0] #[1] #[2] The way I see Nostr, it’s a layer 0 transport protocol. To make it really usable we have to build services on top of it similar to the current Fediverse. The only problem is what to do about the private key.

2023-02-27 17:53:16

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#[0] #[1] Did you add relay.mostr.pub? I think it’s a client problem.

2023-02-27 17:41:49

There’s a limitation in Mastodon where if your avatar or banner is larger than 1MB it will drop them. Therefore some Mostr users won’t have avatars on Mastdodon.

2023-02-27 14:17:08

benis

2023-02-27 02:08:28

Good evening, I’ve just deployed the first beta version of Mostr: a bridge between Nostr and the Fediverse.
More info here: https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-fediverse-nostr-bridge/
Source code: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr
The bridge is an ActivityPub server and Nostr client, written from the ground up in TypeScript with Deno. It generates RSA keypairs and pubkeys deterministically by combining the username with a SECRET_KEY. Sqlite is needed to store a reverse-lookup of Nostr to AP IDs, but otherwise it mostly works off the Web Cache API and the Nostr relay. I wrote nearly everything and gained lots of knowledge about cryptography.
Enjoy.

2023-02-26 22:04:37

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#[0] Reddit hug of death.