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2025-06-08 16:32:52

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Don’t sleep on Iroh. It’s a bit different but very similar https://www.iroh.computer/

2025-06-07 18:25:03

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It’s not hard if you provide (at the very least) a comparably good experience. Ideally though the experience would be better. I know that’s not good news, but it’s true. People switch to a better experience.
They’re already enjoying the social network experience. Harder to get someone that doesn’t even like social media to get into it.

2025-06-07 18:11:10

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People that use Twitter every single day.

2025-06-07 18:06:41

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I’ve onboarded ~4 online friends and none of them had an “it just works” experience. None stayed longer than a day

2025-06-07 17:57:15

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The UX is dog water. Nostr devs are high on their own supply. They’re clueless about what the average person experiences and thinks when they try to onboard.

2025-06-03 18:47:24

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Indeed. I don’t see mints as being trustworthy unless they’re backed by real corporations with insurance, or public entities. People you can actually sue and punish.
@npub1jlr…ynqn nostr relays aren’t really the same because the stuff we put on there is mostly worthless trash 😂

2025-06-01 18:49:48

Nothing Ever Happens
#note16js…wa62

2025-06-01 18:39:29

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Just the NIP’s on Nostr app from @npub1q3s…d26p and subsequent new NIPs like this one #nevent1q…7edu
It’s a design philosophy, right? Having an NIP for literally everything is more decentralized, but it is also overwhelming and annoying for implementers.
Makes you wonder if there should just be an NIP for structured content in general or even https://webxdc.org/ apps which covers 90% of desired custom elements and functions

2025-06-01 18:14:28

Do we really need an event type for every object on earth?

2025-05-31 21:13:57

The people yearn for terminals. They yearn for transparent and honest “pay per usage” business models.
Nostr terminals will be a thing. Assume compromised terminal, design around that.
https://image.nostr.build/3c39c14bb1b8859761d2d546213c6769b240e4d5c26524b29e1a0cb1222e1c4c.jpg

2025-05-31 20:12:57

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Or onboard real churches. The issue is still that there is no best practice UX around key management that normies can comprehend. @npub1tke…wral is doing good work for bitcoin but nothing for nostr yet. Of course it doesn’t help that nostr lacks a PKI

2025-05-31 20:09:36

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Are you being sarcastic or sincere? If sincere, what do you like about it?

2025-05-31 18:41:13

GNU Taler is insanely bad. It promotes user privacy over and against user ownership.
Since when do GNU people make that trade-off? Do they justify it by an irrational hatred of Proof of Work crypto?

2025-05-30 20:30:12

More model options being added to @npub10hp…dxkr is gonna be huge
#note1kqe…ujt4

2025-05-24 22:18:11

Computer programming genuinely isn’t fun anymore.
The leet coders and LLM slop ruined it.

2025-05-23 16:16:13

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Yesterday I just wrote an extremely detailed and lengthy product requirements doc and gave it to Claude. Not bad results. At least for the UI. It’s just hard to get things across the finish line

2025-05-22 02:03:45

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I think this will depend on a UX that has a more transparent relationship between what you see and what is happening.
Like navigating to a relay and then getting data from that relay. Vs 10 relay connections in the background at all times. What do you think?

2025-05-19 21:23:23

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Should I be on the TestFlight or main App Store version?

2025-05-19 16:14:03

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in the outbox model, every user still configures which relays they personally want to post to right? How do they choose exactly? Are they choosing their “home base” relay?
I keep wondering if it may make more sense to intentionally choose relays on a post by post basis. Different logic behind that UX, but it’s definitely easier to conceptualize. Less of a black box

2025-05-19 16:03:07

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It would be interesting if that sort of thing was made more transparent. Make relays dumber so the influencer incurs the cost, not the relay

2025-05-19 15:55:25

Has anyone figured out a UX for relay management that includes this sort of stuff. Like “who hangs out here” info for relay management
@npub1n0s…lahe @npub1g53…drvk @npub1jlr…ynqn @npub1wmr…g240
#note14y8…h0pd

2025-05-19 15:53:50

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If I get rid of some relays, what if I lose contact with some mutuals? How would I know if I do?

2025-05-19 15:53:04

Nostur has awesome control for relays (select which ones to read from, post to, and search on). But I’m realizing that I have literally no information as to which relays are better than others.
I want to reduce the amount of relays but how? I don’t personally know anyone running any of these. It’s like choosing Home Depot or Lowe’s. Literally the same, makes no difference.

2025-05-19 15:36:21

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Serving content to lurkers is by far the bulk of the bandwidth, right? So the people paying to post are subsidizing the lurkers.
This becomes especially problematic if you have a celebrity like @npub1sg6…f63m paying to post on your relay, right? You could charge Jack more to post, but then he has to recoup his own costs on that.
So should the “tiers” be based more on popularity of the user rather than how much they post?
The only other option is to charge lurkers for lurking to pay for the much greater content serving bandwidth

2025-05-19 15:27:32

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Looking forward to it. I’m all for sustainable, honest business models.
What usage are you assuming on that account? Could it make sense to have different tiers in terms of how much people use it? After all they’re not paying for “an account” but rather just for traffic, right?
Or is it that the people posting to the server are also subsidizing everyone reading from the server for free?

2025-05-19 15:20:54

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$45 per user per year? How did you arrive at that pricing structure? I thought the server tech would be performant enough now to be sustainable closer to $24 per year (double what whatsapp used to cost)

2025-05-19 15:04:50

There should not be a hard supply cap to begin with. That is an insane monetary system that has never existed in history ever, so that’s on you for pitching it.
Saylor would be God Emperor of planet earth under such a system.
#note1kjk…09kx

2025-05-18 18:54:54

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> You don’t rip out the heart of a protocol just because
It’s not ripping anything out of the protocol. The decimal doesn’t exist in the protocol. Think about that before you write a 15,000 word cope post.

2025-05-18 17:47:10

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In the actual code, the decimal place in bitcoin amounts doesn’t exist.

2025-05-18 17:14:56

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The decimal place is fake. Just remove the decimal. No normal person cares about the “muh 21 million” meme to begin with

2025-05-18 17:13:32

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No, you’re getting it wrong

2025-05-18 13:46:33

For anyone wondering, I am trying to make my own nostr client based on this idea of nostr relays being “places”.
The experience is like Lego Island, essentially. You start out in one default “place” and in order to learn about new places you have to meet a local that tells you about them.
Searching for things and posting is highly intentional. You’re specifically marking down where you are going to search / post to.
If you get invited to someone’s home (maybe the personal relay server they always post to), you’re getting let in on something special.
If you stalk someone and act creepy, you might get bounced from a place.
So many analogies that just work.
#nevent1q…xak4

2025-05-18 13:35:19

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On second thought, I think a relay is just a place, as mentioned in nevent below. The relay is the pub where the Inklings met.
#nevent1q…w356

2025-05-18 05:33:11

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> For example, the New York Times can now issue blue checks to its journalists directly in the app.
Remember nostr“badges”? 👴🏻

2025-05-18 05:30:22

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Are you think publications should be a keypair but then articles within publications should be a “multi-sig” note of some kind?
I think what you describe can still maintain the “locality” of relays. Relays as “places” abstraction is powerful

2025-05-18 03:25:13

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Or maybe publications see the “anti-censorship” angle as a benefit and just adjust their monetization models accordingly. Either way it needs exploring with real publications with existing business models.

2025-05-18 03:24:06

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Yeah there’s a lot of open questions. Given certain limitations, maybe publications should be just a profile, and maybe they need a new note type that allows for “multi-sig” notes to include the authors and editors.

2025-05-18 02:16:46

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So there are no “pay 2 read” relays? Only “pay 2 post” right?
So business models will have to account for that

2025-05-18 01:19:01

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Jumble is really a great client for this experience.
One thing I’m unsure of though is the access to articles. You already thought of this with the “-“ tag but I’m curious how that would work in practice. What guarantees brands need to support themselves financially.
Would love to work this out and onboard a publication (and it’s contributors) this way

2025-05-17 18:16:56

Hey @npub1q3s…d26p are you still running that service where you spin up relays for communities?

2025-05-17 17:32:25

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At the very least, I’m happy to be the devil’s advocate here and push the “profile” camp to have better arguments.

2025-05-17 17:14:00

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I just discovered @npub1syj…f6wl ‘s Jumble project and it looks like that UX would match what is needed! https://github.com/CodyTseng/jumble

2025-05-17 17:05:15

Question: If nothing is curated, how do we find things?
Answer: Nostr relays that function like magazines.
Each of your contributors gets whitelisted to post on the relay. They are contracted to post X times per week. Readers just read from the relay.
Nostr clients need to support this UX. @npub1jlr…ynqn @npub1wmr…g240
https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/if-nothing-is-curated-how-do-we-find-things/

2025-05-15 17:40:20

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If you want to “follow” someone, you need to go to the same places as them.
This is intuitive and obvious in the real world.
“Where did ___ go? Oh they stopped coming here a month ago. They’re over at ____ now.”
If you get invited to someone’s home (server), that should be a big deal.

2025-05-15 16:33:59

Relays should be the primary entity in Nostr UX.
Trying to make it all oriented around users / people is a hack workaround.

2025-05-15 15:10:48

Please just call it payouts or something. This shit is worse than Urbit naming
#note19h8…ftrd

2025-05-12 20:54:17

Would be nice if there was a way to quickly and easily tell which relays are which…
Telephone pole = ephemeral, chaotic, maybe proof of work to post?, low trust
Shopfront Window = pay per post or ad-supported, agreed upon lifespan, semi-trusted
Church / University bulletin board = whitelist membership based, high trust
#note16rj…w2d5

2025-05-12 20:39:19

It should be much, much harder to post to relays. Increase the barrier to entry. Show the relay proudly in the apps.

2025-05-12 17:52:37

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@npub1h0u…rwx8

2025-05-11 17:38:20

Pretty cool to see a network of user run hotspots actually working.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250424407728/en/Helium-Network-Brings-Wi-Fi-Connectivity-to-ATT-at-Thousands-of-Locations-Across-America

2025-05-11 17:19:20

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@npub1jlr…ynqn I think Coracle is pretty good at surfacing the relays like this (last I checked)

2025-05-10 19:23:53

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Increasing the “friction” to post would arguably provide a better UX. Make people specifically choose where they want their “flyer” to go. Make them think about it. Show an animation or flow that indicates it “went there”.

2025-05-10 19:19:59

If @npub1h0u…rwx8 has the mail metaphor, regular Nostr posting should embrace the telephone pole metaphor.
You’re just putting up your flyer in various places.
- telephone pole (public)
- storefront window (private)
- church billboard (non profit)
It accurately captures the reality of what is happening to your data. Each location can take down your flyer whenever it wants. Or it could keep it up well after you need them to.

2025-05-10 18:59:08

Need to convert https://itter.sh to run on Nostr.
Let people add a flag for which relay to post to

2025-05-02 19:37:48

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When I said whitelist, I meant to say key sharing. Like distributing read keys to a group of people. Distributing new read keys when you make a change to the list, that kind of thing. And then filtering out content for which you don’t have a read key.
There’s more than one way to do it, but no doubt it’s just easier if every user handles the compute themselves

2025-05-01 18:22:59

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I agree about small worlds though. We need ACLs like private accounts. Most people don’t want or need to be fully public to the world.
ACLs typically need everyone to have their own server though. Otherwise you have massive whitelists you’re managing and updating in weird ways

2025-05-01 18:21:31

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> and that is the network that has the best chance of going mainstream.
With their leadership? They never had a chance.

2025-04-16 00:15:34

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Wait Nowser is actually better because it’s not an NSEC Bunker thing. I like that way more

2025-04-04 15:22:17

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Not for global, but for following, https://fraidyc.at/ has an insanely simple solution.
> Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. No one can noisily take over this page, since every follow has a summary that takes up a mere two lines.

2025-03-31 19:53:25

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Any things in this space you’re excited about?

2025-03-30 17:57:35

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That’s cool that NZ is thinking about AI in this way. I understand that it can be a consistent narrative to promote AI while also not getting enough people in the country.
But what we see with the messaging in America is inconsistent in comparison. They simultaneously say we need more people than ever. They say there are not enough people to take the jobs, so that’s why we need outsourcing, that’s why we need the myriad of work visas. Meanwhile, tech laid off 400k people at least since 2022.
Then to add insult to injury, they say AI is taking jobs. Well which is it? Is AI taking jobs or are there so many jobs that we need India to take them all?
You can see why AI is a complete distraction from my point of view, right? American tech companies lay off 10k and then apply for 10k work visas or sign a bigger contract with Cognizant. AI is irrelevant from this perspective.

2025-03-29 23:48:38

Does everyone know that Trump is in favor of outsourcing and increasing work visas?
And he’s barely even deporting illegals to add insult to injury lol. The dude just loves fucking us over every single way he can.

2025-03-29 23:44:57

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I don’t know what life is like in New Zealand, but I can’t imagine it would be different for tech unless there are laws against outsourcing. Do you know if there are?
There is no serious company in the world that has started using AI in any official capacity. It just has not had an impact on jobs yet.
But they will claim it has, because this gives them a cover for their outsourcing.

2025-03-29 23:37:27

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Odd, I didn’t get anything. I notice I get a spinning wheel when trying to add you as a contact

2025-03-29 23:33:55

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> I pointed out that with AI rapidly improving, many of the jobs that have been cut likely aren’t coming back.
Lack of jobs has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with outsourcing and H1B.
Yes, AI is helpful. But you are actually the ill informed one if you think companies aren’t hiring because of it.
Companies *are* hiring. They’re just not hiring citizens.

2025-03-29 02:40:50

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The use case is when a convo starts about one thing and diverges topics, but the chat title is still just about the initial thing.
Also convos include a wide range of things often that can’t easily be summed up

2025-03-29 02:40:00

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Will the search include stuff in the body of the chat as well? Is that possibly coming in the future?

2025-03-28 21:02:47

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Nominative Determinism strikes again? Generation X….

2025-03-28 20:33:02

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Not all have forgotten. But the ones that don’t understand why young people are going back to flip phones…. They have forgotten.

2025-03-28 20:06:51

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Get the app on your AppStore and look up my npub. And message me haha. Just want to see how the UX is

2025-03-28 20:05:27

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Gen X and older really have forgotten what it was like to party without smartphones. Total freedom to just have fun with basically no fear. When you did see a camera, it was very obviously a camera and you can interact with it as such. No ambiguity, so no creepiness.

2025-03-28 20:04:12

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Yeah, pretty much that. Not just the online social stuff, but it’s also pretty obvious that even the presence of a smartphone kills the vibe in a way that is hard to put into words. Maybe the possibility of being recorded at any given moment? I think the youngest generations are realizing it. It’s why you’ll see a lot of flip phones in the hippest neighborhoods

2025-03-28 17:21:12

Anyone want to test @npub1tm9…xn72 with me? Not sure who else is using messaging that works with the new NIP-104 MLS

2025-03-28 17:10:33

Granted, I am all for the movement to get rid of smartphones. Maybe that will pick up traction and web apps will become popular again. Sounds like a miracle, but we can pray.
#note1d48…clxn

2025-03-28 17:09:25

The elephant in the room with decentralized social / messaging is that nobody will ever use a web app. A web app will *never* gain significant adoption.
Better to have a severely limited and ugly native mobile app than to have an incredibly polished and robust web app.

2025-03-27 01:38:01

The lack of user-owned compute will forever be the problem with Nostr. I’m bullish on Urbit again… can’t believe I’m saying it
#note1pgt…dz7n

2025-03-26 18:36:33

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I’m really focusing on the ACLs / permissions UX though. E2EE doesn’t solve that.
I actually *like* that I can turn my Urbit off lol. If we want a forever running Urbit to hang out in, we can go to a “third space” like an Urbit run by a business.

2025-03-26 17:38:06

I do love Rostra (and other P2P social things), but you will always run into this issue of compute.
People want a feeling of security and safety. They want Access Control Lists, friend requests, permissions. You need compute for that.
It’s why I still believe in Urbit. It’s the closest thing to a digital home we have. P2P social + safety and security. Users actually have their own compute. And it’s understandable where data lives (at my house, at your house, etc)

2025-03-25 19:46:02

Extrapolating this out, why aren’t the biggest free relays showing us ads in our notifications?
It’s simple. When a user queries for notes, every so often, present notes that they didn’t ask for. Maybe even base the ads you show them on their existing activity. You now have a rival to Google/Meta ads.
#note1f83…xqnf

2025-03-25 19:31:45

If the relay isn’t paid, it should be run by an existing business.
It should be like a Pizza Planet relay that advertises pizza to you every so often in your notifications. That would be an honest and sustainable business model.

2025-03-20 20:10:18

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I have a use case for this actually.
Prove that someone lives in a certain area. Mail a code to someone and they enter the code they were mailed, then they get the attestation that they live in a city or state etc. Could do this process once a year to verify.
Then stuff like civil discourse becomes much more meaningful. No bots or people from other locations chiming in.

2025-03-19 14:45:16

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How are badges related to IDs?

2025-03-17 22:44:20

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Please announce when you do! It’s the only thing keeping me in OpenAI land

2025-03-17 22:14:18

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I regularly re-visit old convos and need to be able to search for them to dig them up again. Will local device search be possible on Maple?

2025-03-17 18:41:15

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“It was just a UX problem?”
“Always has been”

2025-03-17 16:34:13

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What if someone is verified human and then lets a bot run their account? They can go to a different verifier and prove to be human again. They can have as many bots as there are verifier services.
I think this is the problem that Bright ID tries to solve

2025-03-17 16:05:49

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All those Nostr meetups and conferences, people could be scanning each others phones and verifying each other!

2025-03-17 16:00:41

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Yeah the main question is how to preserve privacy. Seemingly the best way is to just have multiple verifier services.
But the thing is, their ability to truly identify a human accurately would still be inferior to a full Sybil resistant network right? People could share fake credentials and scam the verifiers. I guess multiple verifiers would compete on who could verify the best, but still. The meta game could incentivize the verifiers to allow a few exceptions here and there.
A decentralized solution like the two I linked above (maybe there are others too) might be better

2025-03-17 15:49:56

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It’s sort of a “car vs faster horse” thing. If you ask people on twitter what they want, they’ll say “less bots”. What if they just want to know when they’re talking to a real human for certain, and a way to optionally filter out all bots in general?
Doesn’t need to become a desperate marketing ploy for Nostr, but it could absolutely be a leg up for the network if a solution like that existed here. Because twitter will always promote spam bots. They increase shareholder value.
I wonder though if something like Bright ID could be implemented in a frictionless manner with a Nostr app though. Linking Nostr ID to Bright ID is simple enough. From there it’s essentially just scanning a QR code in person to verify your friends. Sybil resistance and privacy preserving afaik

2025-03-16 17:06:59

Has anyone tried to integrate something like https://proofofhumanity.id/ or https://www.brightid.org/ to a Nostr app? I know linking secondary IDs has been done, but proving you’re not a bot in a way that maintains privacy seems genuinely useful and not just a secondary thing.
@npub1jlr…ynqn @npub1wmr…g240

2025-03-10 16:06:25

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I have tried to promote this for Nostr for a while. Is there a reason this same standard wouldn’t work for you? https://webxdc.org/

2025-03-05 17:18:54

This is exactly the attitude that makes Nostr suck. The idea that everyone needs to be a creator is what *creates* the noise to begin with. Most people just want to simply hang out and be in community with others.
You have value even if people are not paying for your time. The Libertarian mind is disgusting. #note17ae…6rjp

2025-03-02 21:49:12

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It’s an app. I don’t think they are trying to necessarily make a full general purpose protocol

2025-03-02 21:47:44

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Exactly. If ordered by people instead of content, you’d see her at the top even if someone posted 20 times and she posted once

2025-03-02 21:46:05

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I set it up on a different account I think. Didn’t want to use the same lightning address for two different accounts (if that is even possible).
I find it all very byzantine honestly. The tips aren’t worth the complexity for me. But thank you!

2025-03-02 21:42:51

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I can’t see the problem because I’m not an influencer with an audience. Not sure you realize what your actual position and status has turned into. I have no doubt that only-zaps works great for you and Jack.

2025-03-02 20:12:36

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It depends on if someone else has drowned out the timeline. What time you posted etc.
Granted, it’s probably solvable with something as simple as what https://fraidyc.at/ does (order the timeline by recently active *person* rather than most recent content)

2025-03-02 20:09:44

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I’m confused about what problem you’re trying to solve in that case.
In your view, how is replying “👍” better than reacting with it?

2025-03-02 19:35:41

It’s a mode that only works for influencers. Two regular friends are not sending each other money like “hell yeah bro!”
Attaching a monetary cost to every interaction is bizarre and unnatural. A “like” is essentially a high five or thumbs up. Acknowledgement from peers just like you get in real life.
Nostr devs need to figure out if Nostr is for regular people or not. As of now it’s pretty much only workable for influencers with pre-existing audiences. #note1hqj…mcny

2025-03-01 05:27:11

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No doubt, I’m not a maximalist for anything. Just want stuff that works