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Leaving @nprofile…prv3
After almost 8 months from the conception of the idea, to meeting @nprofile…6rpa in Riga, brainstorming the product, and putting a lot of effort to launch... it's time to go.
While Pip was always the brains behind the algos, crawler and a #golang wizard, my involvement still required energy that was being taken away from other places.
So I'm back to focusing 110% on @nprofile…tdq0.
I'm very proud of what we built (including my baby npub.world). Vertex really works, it's well-designed, fast, reliable, interoperable and will be elemental in an open protocol where separating signal vs noise is a must.
All the best moving forward my friend @nprofile…6rpa 🫂! For those who don't know him, one of the best developers in nostr, hands down.

2025-04-02 20:29:33

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Best one so far for me

2025-03-29 18:21:30

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Us. Putting my grain of sand with @nprofile…je4n and @nprofile…ckkp

2025-03-29 18:19:10

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El filosofo contemporaneo mas aclamado de Latinoamerica

2025-03-29 04:41:34

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Miedo!

2025-03-28 13:55:58

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Btw, I did not repost fiatjaf's ascii art

2025-03-28 13:54:48

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Regeln sind regeln

2025-03-28 13:48:08

Google maintains the pub.dev main Dart package registry.
Over the past few weeks its API has been intemittently failing.
This means any "pub get" command also fails, which is a bottleneck in any workflow.
I am focused on end-user app/package marketplaces but language-specific package managers also are ripe to be nostrified.

2025-03-27 17:26:48

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I have a credit card where do I put it

2025-03-27 16:45:32

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Nostr Mechanical Turk

2025-03-27 15:10:19

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Wouldn't an nsec be enough to back up the ecash?

2025-03-27 14:06:35

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Wow, respect. But running marathons is extremely taxing on the body and will exacerbate a cancer.

2025-03-27 01:18:36

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LLM

2025-03-27 00:52:29

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Now imagine hooking it up to @nprofile…prv3 DVMs

2025-03-26 15:47:10

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That's me

2025-03-26 15:41:15

Can we use local LLMs as screen readers?
Would be so cool to interact with apps by talking to an LLM instead

2025-03-26 15:36:44

And there are significant physical advantages when walking:
- Looking or staring at nature, better light sources and relaxed eye focus
- Compensating predominant body posture, anterior pelvic tilt
- Lower cortisol
- Better chances of grounding or touching grass
- General cardiovascular health
I'm going to start using @nprofile…ltsg instead of reading on my phone, and hope it can start TTS'ing more kinds of content. Maybe the other way round as well - commanding the phone by voice.

2025-03-25 19:32:30

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Ok, I see, and agree with openness and interoperability. What i'm saying is we need applications to translate those attributes into benefits users perceive and relate to.
Without this basic marketing skill it will be very difficult to grow.

2025-03-25 18:53:46

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Oh ok. Easier that way.

2025-03-25 18:37:55

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Appealing to people who empathize with the nostr idealistic vision (or appreciate it as a system with network effect) means getting stuck in the early adopter phase forever. You can't expect growth from there.
Nostr means nothing without applications built on it, and people use applications when they find them useful, it solves a problem for them. It's only apps that bring people. I give a lot of credit to SaaS platforms that grow because they solve a problem, though they might be fixing some inherently fiat problem and/or creating new ones along the way.
If 0.01% of the population cares about censorship resistance, that is the adoption ceiling.
As for communities, I mean a forum. The most basic community building block. To give an example of problems; you can't view reddit content when signed out or with a VPN. X is also limited. Discord same. Creating accounts is a pain many people agree on. Nostr can help fix that.
Nostr has a lot more interesting value props than censorship resistance that applications can leverage to alleviate people's actual, real problems. Applications should focus on those.
Re: Zapstore, thank you for your words! Appreciate it and I promise you it will get so much better still.

2025-03-25 14:55:46

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This is a bit exaggerated, but if I had to find a reason it is: lack of great tools for communities.
Nostr today has only one real great UX and value prop: a Twitter replacement.
We need multiple forms of onramps not just one. Onramping new people also means solving their problems, not our imaginary ones.
Not saying communities is easy or wasn't attempted by smart devs but it's reality.
(I'm making my small contribution working with legends @nprofile…je4n and @nprofile…ckkp )
Let's keep pushing 🫂

2025-03-24 23:48:29

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You mean using sentiment analysis, zaps? Example?

2025-03-22 12:38:58

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GM!

2025-03-22 12:21:22

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Thanks! Gpt-4o and sonnet 3.7 still require a lot of hand holding, I would think that gpt mini is worse - but will try.
Did not know deepseek-chat was compatible with tools, nice

2025-03-21 21:50:05

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Is this the cashu encyclopedia?

2025-03-21 21:48:46

What are the best LLMs to use with goose?
Using @nprofile…35fm is great but unsustainable, too expensive especially interacting with Claude or gpt-4o
Claude is not available to new users.
Recommendations?
#asknostr

2025-03-20 12:47:54

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I use filter.nostr.wine

2025-03-18 17:40:34

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We were talking about a different trust signal (than a follow)

2025-03-18 13:44:32

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Yeah right
Nostr however can turn into something else and we'll be fine, not bitcoin

2025-03-18 13:22:27

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Amazing

2025-03-18 13:20:30

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@nprofile…pyug @nprofile…wwcj do you guys recall where we discussed all this?

2025-03-18 13:19:34

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tl;dr agree with you but it's hard. I would be fine with an extremely simple one (e.g. super-follow?) but discussion was always around quantifying it, if absolute or relative, if context should be included or not...

2025-03-18 13:16:26

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We've been bikeshedding that one in the NIP repo for over a year 😅

2025-03-18 13:09:43

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Yeah that they *could* be. Could either have relay pubkeys auto-follow their members, or incorporate a mechanism to show that in graphs like Vertex's

2025-03-17 15:59:21

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Maybe we are talking about different apps

2025-03-17 15:52:23

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Use Tauri and an LLM to help you in the process

2025-03-17 14:48:40

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manus.im

2025-03-17 14:29:48

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WANT! 💯
I once thought about building something like it.
I would make it native apps, personal notes is very private and the browser is too general.
Nostr could be an extra optional layer to share thoughts, gather bookmarks etc. Maybe as a separate internet-connected tool, as i personally don't give internet access to note taking apps.
Tried to zap you but it failed

2025-03-14 18:57:33

npub.world best nostr profile search hands down
#humblebrag

2025-03-14 16:18:36

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Sorry @nprofile…ku56 for butchering your pixel perfect Figma
Fixes will come

2025-03-14 15:58:29

NEW https://npub.world 🚀
Designed by legend @nprofile…ku56 and implemented by me and Claude
https://cdn.satellite.earth/20d5b4fffe0f4814dc45cbf3593a8538bef02ce9c7b463353994b5439087bf77.jpg

2025-03-13 12:27:03

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Odell long form, love it

2025-03-13 12:11:28

Bro the stuff we're cookin with @nprofile…je4n is next level fr fr

2025-03-12 15:48:56

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How about having the second relay as fallback? So only connect if first one down
As for storing your stuff forever, could be done by the first relay (especially if paid like nostr.wine ) *and* locally via Citrine or similar

2025-03-11 17:21:59

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Yes, less paranoia fixes it

2025-03-11 02:55:15

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It's terrible

2025-03-11 02:30:41

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Thanks. By architectures you mean specs? Seems like we'll have several coexisting then.
Moderating by content seems like insanity. Users should still be able to mute.
I would use WoT (Personalized Pagerank of the admins) and also kick out users who misbehave (could be whitelisting as I do rn). Whether at relay or event level, not sure. I am definitely tempted to give it a shot - make up a kind and let's go.
Lastly, I saw the groups on Coracle, and I dislike the "item is content" UX (I know its the spec not you.)
There should be a required plain text title to summarize. This is how Reddit/forums work. This is how stacker.news works and why so many people love these sites.

2025-03-11 02:18:44

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Ok, cool. Got there by domain then to Groups.

2025-03-11 02:08:36

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Also, it should be obvious the client is a forum thing. Voyage is not that

2025-03-11 02:07:50

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Thanks. But no, thats why I said content should not be the item - not a chat, not a feed. I personally dislike that UX for a forum feature.
Should be like stacker.news

2025-03-11 01:34:22

ALSO: I want it front and center
Go to https://zapstore.dev/community and see the list of post titles right there
#nevent1q…2teh

2025-03-11 01:31:38

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100% agree
Let's do it here, now. Forum post kind 838282772

2025-03-11 01:14:51

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You're writing a keyboard from scratch? 👀

2025-03-11 01:13:28

How come 3 years into nostr we don't even have a single shitty Reddit/forum clone?
I never got to understand the low level stuff of "communities" but guys - aren't we overthinking and overengineering this?
I mean Reddit. Forum. Stack overflow. Hacker news. Stacker.news.
A basic title and a markdown body upon opening it. Replies/zaps to those items. We have WoT tools, we have blacklists on relays. What else is possibly needed?
NOT chat or Discord. NOT a feed where main content is listed (what i see on Amethyst/satellite). Totally different UX.
#nevent1q…nnc4

2025-03-11 00:58:23

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Thank you, however Reddit and Discord are very different things. I don't know why they keep being conflated, just because they are tools for communities. But UX is totally different

2025-03-11 00:51:15

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What's the tl;dr on moderation? Maybe i'm not seeing it but is this such a hard problem?
Just use a relay to host these messages and let anyone over a certain WoT threshold relative to the relay pubkey publish. And add a pubkey blacklist too.
Kind 839392727 to publish a stacker.news / reddit / hackernews / forum post with one plain text title plus a markdown body, kind 1 to comment
Done
Or not?

2025-03-11 00:26:25

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Getting a 404 on your link

2025-03-09 19:57:38

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Are you hiding money in there?

2025-03-07 19:54:43

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Dang just saw it's there 🔥

2025-03-07 15:43:28

@nprofile…35fm is awesome, has a ton of models, can be used anonymously and uses an account number similar to Mullvad that you top up with LN.
It can also be connected to agents like goose.
Highly recommend

2025-03-07 13:02:20

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How do you define what a "reputable profile" is?

2025-03-05 16:03:11

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Y el aceite que marca es?

2025-03-05 12:55:25

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Yes there was one with quite some users. Can't recall its name😅

2025-03-04 16:02:35

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Trying it out get error 401 Server does not accept image/png blobs. Everything seems enabled in config

2025-03-04 15:39:23

@nprofile…wj75 is it possible to have a pubkey whitelist (loaded from a database) with your blossom-server?

2025-03-04 14:06:17

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Cortisol is a hell of a drug, that's why carnivores feel great - until they don't. Eating meat with high quality dairy and fruit is important.

2025-03-03 13:46:16

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Vos tambien amigo 🌩️

2025-03-03 13:45:04

🎯
https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/iron-dangers.shtml
#nevent1q…d0yw

2025-03-01 18:04:07

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Alex, do you have a simple example on how to use Nostrify? The docs are just snippets and Ditto is too big.
I want to build a relay with NRelay and I could not figure it out. If its with Bun awesome, but Deno works too
Tried to find your build a relay talk at nostriga but did not succeed

2025-03-01 17:50:02

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Completely agree with the first part, but the timeframe is very personal. The important message here is to be aware of your behavior and feeling of vitality more than the "one week" that lots of readers will retain as the normal.

2025-03-01 17:15:43

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Exactly there are many of these examples. We'll start compiling a list of potential guests @nprofile…0d9y

2025-03-01 15:25:29

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The only reason Firefox exists is to be forked

2025-03-01 01:27:29

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We'll get it on RSS soon

2025-02-28 21:01:33

"The Business of Freedom Tech"
A new podcast by me and @nprofile…0d9y
Listen to our first episode, a 30 minute rant about freedom tech, incentives, monetization and what we hope to get out of this experiment.
(We're such rookies on podcasting 😅 )
Soon on platforms, RSS feeds and all that...
Would love some feedback!
https://cdn.satellite.earth/08a7363902cf9f108a4a15bdb0b0358290a0c701df077b993bfa9795b236a8b8.mp3

2025-02-28 17:21:03

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Absolutely, we built this DVM with that in mind: https://vertexlab.io/docs/nips/sort-profiles-dvm/

2025-02-28 17:13:11

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I think it's a good comparison because Primal is one of the best ones in nostr anyway. Before npub.world I would always use Primal to find actual real profiles.
What are the chances of Primal integrating @nprofile…prv3 search? Or implement your own search DVMs under the same spec? 👀

2025-02-27 18:07:17

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Global is an asymptote but with @nprofile…prv3 we're darn close (probably won't work for content)

2025-02-27 17:32:21

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Maybe it's because our crawler is triggered with updates, and these profiles do not update? Not sure
@nprofile…6rpa

2025-02-27 17:28:04

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They need to have *some* reputation. We do not discriminate by anything else. We are intolerant with garbage.

2025-02-27 17:18:41

Pretty cool that searching for "jungle" shows @nprofile…jv0r as second result 😄
https://npub.world/?q=jungle

2025-02-25 23:15:34

Loving this supercycle @nprofile…xafw 😅

2025-02-25 21:25:12

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Lots of keys are missing, they are indexed as people update their profiles

2025-02-24 22:34:01

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It is not designed to search by topic, it is used to search profiles

2025-02-24 21:58:37

Just launched
https://npub.world

2025-02-21 13:12:44

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Yes to domain centric design and basic separation of concerns, no to premature optimization and overkill like clean architecture for smaller projects where the boilerplate and indirection make up a lot of the code
Choose names wisely and be clear and consistent. Make code expressive and self documenting.

2025-02-19 16:33:49

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Try updating to 0.2.5

2025-02-19 13:48:07

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It's a bug in what it shows, it's actually 0.2.4
Go to Settings and find the actual version there

2025-02-17 13:39:14

Milei... 🤦
Eso pasa por no entender #bitcoin
NO LA VES.

2025-02-14 15:07:42

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One of those days

2025-02-13 16:11:29