teldon

Just some random person on the internet.

Public Key

npub1gymmqyfef474vhgfr4qnz8ckm64g0yz320f0qk3zusnjrgpe5h8qvv7zgr

NIP-57 Address

teldon@getalby.com

Profile Code

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relay.damus.io

bevo.nostr1.com

relay.noswhere.com

Author Public Key

npub1gymmqyfef474vhgfr4qnz8ckm64g0yz320f0qk3zusnjrgpe5h8qvv7zgr

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2024-09-14 14:39:03

I have a question for those knowledgeable about the more technical side of #bitcoin. Let's say 100 people are creating 100 simple, basic, person-to-person transactions. Is it possible for those transactions to be combined in transit? And if so, would the resulting transaction be more space-efficient than those 100 individual transactions? #asknostr #askbitcoin

2024-09-08 20:05:09

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Micro payments may ultimately be the way forward, but until Bitcoin can handle such small payments on-chain, it's gonna be a pipe dream.

2024-09-07 14:49:59

Testing to see if gosip can write to my locally hosted relay.

2024-09-07 14:13:46

Downloaded and compiled a test versin of @npub189j…3tg8 to check out some of the features that @npub1acg…p35c has been working on. The inclusion of a global feed is a huge step forward. The ability to set what relay(s) constitute your global feed and the possibility of better curation tools will turn this feature into an absolute powerhouse. Add in hashtag support so we can see what people are congregating around, and DVM support things like custom trending algos and generally better discoverability, will make Gossip one of if not the best desktop nostr client. It's really looking like it will represent what I understand nostr is and what it should look like.

2024-08-28 17:17:47

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I supose that is the long and short of it.

2024-08-28 17:09:41

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Address added to profile.

2024-08-28 17:01:41

Another thing, #bitcoiners need to have a LOT more trust in #bitcoin as a technology. You are transacting in good faith and not setting the transaction fee so low the transaction never gets mined. There's no need to wait around for conformations outside the initial funding of your wallet, refilling your wallet when you fall below acceptable minimums, and transactions dealing with large amounts of bitcoin. I would not be surprised at all if most poeple have enough money in their bitcoin wallet that they don't need to worry about unconfirmed transactions. Seriously, how man people have been in a situation where they've HAD to wait for an incoming transaction to confirm because they NEEDED to make an outgoing transaction? Think about it for a moment.

2024-08-28 16:44:15

I think most #bitcoin people forget that most traditional forms of payment outside cash have massive lag times between when a transaction is "authorized" and the money actually being payed out by the relevant institution. Hours and sometimes even days. Bitcoin on the other hand is lightning fast in comparison at as little as 10 minutes between a transaction being sent to the mempool (authorized) and that transaction being in a mined block (payed out).

2024-08-28 16:16:29

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I don't deal in lighting. On-chain only.

2024-08-23 13:24:43

I've said it once but I'll say it again, the arrogance of inevitability forgets the only inevitable thing in life is death. Seems to be a truth that #nostr has forgotten.

2024-08-14 22:07:16

There, my pfp has been updated.

2024-05-13 16:49:02

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Crushed under it's own weight trying to become an everything app. I'm
probably one of the few people who think nostr should have never grown
beyond a Twitter alternative. There are already protocols that exist for
a lot of added usecases that have been added. I don't think I'll ever
enderstand the obsession with trying to add every feature under the sun
to nostr.

2024-05-10 11:16:49

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現時点では、このプラットフォームに誰かを招待することはお勧めしない。このプラットフォームは、自分がどうありたいのかわからなくなっている。

2024-05-08 21:03:35

In the context of #bitcoin #nostr, I've come to really dislike the phrase "we're so early". It comes off as buzzwordy to me, especially when one of those projects has been around for over a decade.

2024-05-08 17:43:28

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I really dislike the idea of nostr trying to become the everything app because it feels like instead of just reinventing the wheel, devs are trying to reinvent the whole damn car and I think that is just unnecessary. I think if we strip nostr down to what its original purpose was supposed to be, a Twitter alternative, It worked perfectly fine. Relays were relatively simple to deploy, and clients only needed to do so much. But now we have people wanting nostr to do everything, and things aren't as simple. People are gonna say, "Well clients don't have to implement everything." That may be true on paper, but in practice, the majority effectively dictates what's required. Videos, torrents, streams, a reddit alternative, etc. don't belong on nostr in my opinion. Those should be spun off into independent projects. Things like relay-specific notes end up siloing discussion topics and ultimately make them no better than fediverse instances. I'm not a developer, nor am I a software engineer, but it looks to me that nostr has failed to be simple. But I'm just a single, imperfect, person. — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp978pfzrv6n9xhq5tvenl9e74pklmskh4xw6vxxyp3j8qkke3cezqyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxyh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmdqyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxgh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmdqy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxvhxgmmjv9nxzcm5dae8jtn0wfnsz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vpj9ejx7unpveskxar0wfujummjvuqq6vfhxy6nqvf3x5mrgvf5xqwa25vr

2024-05-07 22:10:06

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Bots aren't my concern, as you're never going to get rid of them. What I'm after is being able to block any and all mostr bridges. I can't tell you how many times I've searched hashtag x and only get overwhelmed with results from the fediverse via the mostr bridge. I don't care what the fediverse thinks because I'm searching on nostr, and if I did want to know I'd just search Mastodon.

2024-05-07 15:10:15

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Being able to block whole nostr address domains would make search so much more useable! Would allow me to block all the bridges and actually be able to search nostr and nostr only!

2024-05-06 17:12:06

Take a look at this #coinjoin transaction and tell me what you see. #asknostr I bet most of you see privacy. But me? I see #bitcoin scaling. How? More efficient transactions mean more transactions per block, and mean more throughput. Couple that with Bitcoiners actually having a little faith and trust in Bitcoin as a technology meaning people feel comfortable doing conformation-less transacting in the real world and Bitcoin is off to the moon.
https://mempool.space/tx/43e18aacf17a821cc68c754ca73ff957baf67a42e2eafefd8ea75fb0aca09820

2024-05-06 14:11:24

Most #bitcoin enthusiasts forget that any traditional transactions outside of cash are not as instant as they believe! They take hours and sometimes days to actually settle! When you write a check or use your credit card the entity you are paying isn't getting their money instantly. Why is Bitcoin treated differently? Why is it considered slow when it only takes as little as 10 minutes for payments to be settled?

2024-05-04 13:08:52

The way I see it, a #bitcoin transaction in the mempool is good enough as payment for most goods and services.

2024-05-04 12:49:48

Also, I think there is too much emphasis on the "number of transactions per second" #bitcoin can do. Every form of payment has a period of time in a transaction in which a party is missing funds until said transaction settles. The reason credit cards seem to be able to handle a high number of transactions per second is because a third party aka the credit card company, is the one missing funds in the transaction and not either of the transacting parties. If we are putting enough trust in other forms of payments that these vacuums of funds can exist, why can't we put that same level of trust into Bitcoin and transact without confirmation? Well, at least when it comes to transacting for goods and services.

2024-05-04 11:21:05

Native multi-party-in and multi-party-out transactions scale #bitcoin so hard!

2024-05-04 10:52:58

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I think what happened is I changed some settings some time ago and completely forgot I made those changes.

2024-05-04 01:29:15

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That's exactly what it was.

2024-05-04 01:24:03

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For some reason, noStrudel on firefox isn't detecting nostr-relay-tray so I can't select it for the cashing relay.

2024-05-03 23:11:11

I really, really like @npub189j…3tg8, but there are one main thing that's really stopping me from switching to it and that is the lack of a global feed. And it really isn't because I want to actually view a global feed but it's nice to be able to search that firehose and not just follows. Useful for when I want to see what nostr as a "whole" are saying about a given keyword or hashtag. Any chance you might add a global feed @npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c?

2024-05-03 21:57:10

Still testing, for better or worse.

still testing

Let's try it now

testing

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It's a damn shame too.

2024-05-03 20:55:37

Let's try this again

2024-05-03 20:32:42

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nope...

2024-05-03 20:28:59

Giving the #nostr relay tray by @npub1syj…f6wl a try. Hopefully this write test works.

2024-05-03 14:09:28

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Any requirement for relays and/or clients to moderate posts and content beyond the minimum of what is required by their local jurisdiction means nostr as a whole has failed.

2024-05-03 13:54:22

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Yes, yes, and YES! "Nostr bros" want nostr to be the end-all, be-all of everything ever. And because of that the scope bloat is unreal.

2024-05-01 22:10:26

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I have no clue, I have no other example of what I'm assuming is identity deniability to use as a frame of reference.

2024-04-29 13:16:23

I am going to make a very bold prediction. #bitcoin will be abandoned and forgotten long before the final coin is mined.

2024-04-23 15:39:23

And no one paid that lightning invoice. I am not surprised in the slightest.

2024-04-22 15:03:06

Let's see if anyone is willing to pay this random #lightning invoice.
lnbc400u1pnzvlqfpp5j0h4ks0tt0e4msdtejwd6w0leumgssg3em55yylj870nyzjr8kxsdzgt9hh2grpwfjjqcmjv9a8jgrfvcs8jmm4ypcxz7fqw35xjueqwfskuer0d5sxjmnkda5kxefwcqzzsxqyz5vqsp5mkkwp0lfha422knxusmnw8eqywmdy69faavra5v877jxfnt6h2hs9qyyssqp3p0kpjwfd02sfz9kh24kudvpcta4g7klj2y0670jx5qyqx32yxpc8gttjm9rvdvnekfpcqhlumz0w6csxzd3v5v7g05z07m9e32r6sqa4d7pc

2024-04-21 21:10:32

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Ok, thanks for the answer.

2024-04-21 14:58:33

Hang on! @npub1ye5…knpr does nostrudel use ipfs at all? Just installed the ipfs desktop node and the firefox extension, and when I reloaded nostrudel it was coming through my local gateway.

2024-04-21 12:30:36

I love that feeling when I can only remember a 2 or 3 second clip of a #song and am still able to find it with very little searching! #music

2024-04-20 22:26:26

Looking at some of the new noStrudel features and I gotta say, associating a color to an identity based on npub is something I would have never thought of. Also like the way it now shows zaps, likes, reposts, etc. I like what I see @npub1ye5…knpr

2024-04-20 00:42:37

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You should have seen some of the fees people were willing to pay to be in the halving block. Someone literally paid a 99,000,000 sat fee for a transaction that totaled less than 100,000 sats.

2024-04-20 00:14:34

Interesting, according to mempool.space the fee for the halving block was roughly 200 sats/vbyte whereas the previous halving was only roughly 90 sats/vbyte. Goes to show how much #bitcoin has exploded in the last 4 years.

2024-04-20 00:01:18

So a #bitcoin halving is apparently happening soon. Neat.

2024-04-18 19:08:25

Had a random realization. It's actually kind of nice not having a lot of #followers on any platform. Because sometimes you want to say some crazy shit out in the open and not have anyone notice.

2024-04-16 18:03:21

Wtf is this censored nonsense‽ I'm just asking for a simple translation! If #nostr is meant to be unstoppable, then simple #translations like this can not be censored. PERIOD!
https://image.nostr.build/9a5b68ce2ea62d5ccd77565c179057106f938044e23301a5abe267ef2c6cd463.png

2024-04-12 20:17:01

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It's not so much that is "the best", it's just what I've used the longest and I'm too lazy to switch.

2024-04-12 20:09:47

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I only use noStrudel. It does the one thing I want to get out of nostr and that is a Twitter alternative.

2024-04-11 18:53:12

Just watched my first anime movie in a *long* time. Side note, it's annoying when you need to watch a series progresses "Anime, Movie, Anime".

2024-04-08 17:49:23

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Well, it's not the end of the world for me. At least not yet.

2024-04-08 17:43:59

Fun fact: I own no on-chain #bitcoin and only have 3,433 sats in #lightning

2024-04-04 11:11:49

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I've heard that too. Though from my understanding part of that is thanks to geo-locked relays.

2024-04-04 01:25:13

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I'm not overly technically minded but from the way you put point one, it sounds like nostr has a really nasty drug addiction, metaphorically speaking.
And point two is something I've been banging my drum hard about for so long. It's refreshing to hear a bigger name finally saying what many refuse to believe. When there are so many features married to Bitcoin and, as you correctly put it, most people are anti-bitcoin, you drive those people away—closing nearly all avenues of growth. And when that happens and nostr becomes nothing just another failed social network experiment, it won't be around when the world actually needs/wants it.
And for all the "Bitcoin/Nostr is inevitable" people in the comments: The arrogance of inevitability forgets the only inevitable thing in life is death.

2024-04-02 18:01:14

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I would highly recommend World's Greatest Con by Brian Brushwood. Season one covers Operation Mincemeat, Season two covers 60's gameshow cheating scandals, Season three covers Project Alpha, and a mini-season that covers how Disney's Reedy Creek Development Area came to be.

2024-04-01 00:22:39

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Never mind! Figured it out!

2024-04-01 00:15:39

So it seems you can't have an empty NIP-05 field after having an entry... That seems like an oversight. #nostr

2024-03-31 23:56:23

And the github repo that I was using has now been deleted.

2024-03-29 19:09:09

Here's a #controversial opinion: #nostr is not the be-all, end-all when it comes to big tech replacements, nor should it be! When I first joined the nostr ecosystem, it was just a simple well-thought-out Twitter replacement. But developers seem so obsessed with creating "The next big thing! ™" that in the eight months that I've been here I've seen a Reddit clone get tacked on, a Wikipedia clone get tacked on, a Youtube replacement get tacked on, an Instagram replacement get tacked on, a Twitch replacement tacked on, a few attempts to tack on a Patreon-like replacement, a few more things being tacked on that I can't remember off the top of my head, and now I'm seeing people calling for WebMD-like thing to be tacked on. Not to mention all the NIP bloat needed to support this nonsense.
I look at my password manager and see roughly 30-35 accounts that I have used regularly in the last 6 months. Could all those be condensed into a single public key if everything was built on nostr? Absolutely! Do I want that? Abso-fucking-lutely not! That is 30-35 identities that are compartmentalized and segregated from each other. One does not consciously know about the other, so to speak. This is one thing ActivityPub services get right! While yes, a user is siloed into a single instance of a given service, different services are effectively segregated from each other by means of average user ability. The average Mastodon user isn't going to know that they can follow a Lemmy post or a PeerTube channel from Mastodon, let alone even know how to do that.
So I implore devs to take a step back, and instead of needlessly reinventing the wheel here on nostr, find an open-source project that already exists and does what you want and help improve it.

2024-03-29 18:03:43

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Yep! This is one of the first things I thought when I saw it. The idea of this proposed NIP comes across as wanting to silo content, of any kind. Thus it has the same fundamental issue people have with ActivityPub. Granted it doesn't silo a person's identity and their existence in the nostr ecosystem, but it does silo what they post.

2024-03-27 18:42:11

Two-factor all the things!!!

2024-03-23 19:32:05

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There's some concern that people are only using either a client default relays or just 2 or 3 of the most popular relays. I could be way off on this though.

2024-03-22 00:42:53

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This is the first time I've ever seen a canary get removed. This is wild!

2024-03-21 15:55:28

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The idea as I understand it is one part decentralization/censorship resistance so if one relay takes action against you don't disappear, and one part failover so if one relay goes down you can still post to the other relays you are connected to.

2024-03-21 15:43:53

After posting, I only discovered that noStrudel shows you proof of work being done if you have that enabled! While one could argue that it doesn't need to be shown to the user if other clients show that proof of work was done, it's still a nice bit of transparency.

2024-03-21 15:13:58

Didn't realize you could add relays to NIP-05! Very handy! Also while writing this note that noStrudel detects and auto links NIPs. That is actually quite handy! #nostr

2024-03-18 22:52:47

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Agreed. The idea of curation goes out the window when you start following that many people. Do you want people to follow? Wade into global and narrow down what you see by keyword or hashtag searches. Does it feel like you're following too many people? Go through your follow list and start pruning. How do you choose who you prune? That is ultimately up to the end user but the criteria I might use is: "Are they posting frequently enough for your liking?" "Has their content shifted too far away from what you were following them for?" "Have they recently posted something that gravely violates your ethics and morals?" things like that.

2024-03-17 22:00:48

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The basic idea is to put a copy of a note, either yours or someone else's, onto relays that they aren't on.

2024-03-17 15:41:13

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I wholeheartedly agree with everything here. Another issue I foresee with topic-specific relays is one of the problems Mastodon has, confusion about what to do and where to go. Not to mention, given how nostr works, there would be a LOT of unintentional cross-topic-relay posting that theoretically would result in bans and a bad experience for the end user. Moderators should only step in when there is something that violates the law in the jurisdiction where the relay is based.
Big relays are only a problem insofar as big relays get all the new users, and as smaller relays die off it centralizes power and authority, which runs counter to what nostr stands for. Even if it's unintended.
Paid relays on the other hand? No clue. Never subscribed to one, nor have I seen people say if they provide better content or not.

2024-03-17 15:11:08

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If a client uses nostr.band for its searches then no. Sadly nostr.band indexes mostr.pub which poisons any attempt to search. If it doesn't then searches are probably based only on what relays you are using. Beyond that, I have no clue.

2024-02-13 22:30:15

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All I really want is a filter that effectively says "if NIP-05=*@mostr.pub then hide post". Though from the sounds of it, that is unrealistic.

2024-02-13 22:19:44

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It's not on my relay list. At least it shouldn't be.

2024-02-13 21:18:23

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Agreed.

2024-02-13 19:45:41

Any way to mass-mute/block all @mostr.pub accounts? I'm trying to see if there's any discussion on some topics on nostr and the mostr bridge has completely polluted the results. #asknostr

2024-02-12 14:56:43

People who think that everything, and I literally mean EVERYTHING, is better off on #nostr will cause nostr to be crushed under its own bloat. I'm in the extreme minority, but nostr should have stayed as just a microblogging/blogging protocol.

2024-01-18 18:54:14

I don't even... #what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wheMp3NM-w8

2023-12-26 15:48:33

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There were three major themes that I personally saw:
1. "The onboarding sucks because I don't understand what most of this nonsense means." This comes down to, at least in my opinion, those with some sort of background in Bitcoin making stuff for those that most likely have some sort of background in Bitcoin.
2. "I see crypto bullshit so I'm noping the fuck out and not wasting my time." Saw that coming from lightyears away. A problem I've mentioned multiple times.
3. "A lack of service-side moderation means this is going to turn into an illegal mess, if it hasn't already." This, to me, comes down to a mix of genuine concern plus political beliefs plus not understanding how to curate one's own content intake.

2023-12-22 13:52:26

The arrogance of inevitability forgets the only guarantee in life is death. #nostr #bitcoin

2023-12-14 18:30:57

Don't ever let anyone tell you that Yamaha is not a #music company again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L4a9v9sOUQ

2023-11-29 17:34:15

Don't get #sick folks!

2023-11-22 17:58:27

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I think that some of that comes down to the fact nostr was conceived and is mainly being developed by people from the bitcoin community. And as a result, the largest group of people on nostr are bitcoiners. Doesn't help that many "normies" think that bitcoin=scam, so when those same "normies" join nostr some of the first things they see are about bitcoin so they nope the fuck out. It ends up being a chicken-and-egg problem caused by the fox having a field day in the henhouse. I think that if bitcoin haters can be convinced to not just join, but ignore bitcoin content altogether, we can get the diversification of content people want.

2023-11-11 12:47:38

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I think it checks wss://relays.nos.social for cross-posting.

2023-11-11 12:25:35

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Instant as well.

2023-11-11 12:24:47

Test 2, just to be safe.

2023-11-11 12:23:33

Now that I'm using the nos.social relay, let's see how quickly this gets cross-posted.

2023-11-06 01:37:59

I started thinking again about the question @npub1l2v…ajft asked a few weeks ago of "If nostr was completely dead in 10, years what killed it?" and after reading a blog post from a new user that @npub180c…h6w6 had made a post about, another reason dawned on me.
An identity crisis. And it takes the form of there being difficulty in trying to describe what nostr even is. Because at this point we have Twitter alternatives, we have blogging sites, we have Reddit alternatives, we have Twitch alternatives, and we have Spotify alternatives. I've seen nostr "marketed" for the most part as *just* a Twitter alternative, but it's so much more.
So how the heck do we solve this? People like @npub1wmr…g240 have talked about hiding the more technical complexities of nostr behind more user-friendly solutions. The same can be done with the fact that nostr is a protocol. What do I mean by that? Clients should lean into the idea that they are filling a distinct role and are wholly independent of any other client. Pair that with the idea of NOT giving people a choice of clients when introducing people to nostr. I know it sounds crazy and counter to what you might want to do, but the way I see it is the less there is to choose from in the beginning the less confusing it'll be. Figure out what ecosystem they're coming from, ie. Twitter, etc., and what their primary device will be. Then tell them to use whatever client you use if you're using the same kind of device, or the most popular client for their device if not. After that let them explore, discover, and answer any questions they might have.

2023-11-06 00:26:21

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I can see it. I'm currently on nostrudel.

2023-11-01 00:59:30

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An hour's delay isn't excellent. However, it could be due to a multitude of reasons.

2023-10-31 23:49:59

Now that I finally got tweeter.nos.social to finally work, let's see if I can actually crosspost between nostr and X.

2023-10-31 16:44:55

First snow of the year! #weather

2023-10-29 15:22:01

Decided to give nostrudel a look after @npub180c…h6w6 kept gushing about it, and holy crap I can see why now.

2023-10-29 14:39:27

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That sucks.

2023-10-29 12:59:07

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Get the follwing error when trying to log in with my X account:
"
error calling login or register handler: transaction error: error calling the provided function: error getting or creating account: error creating the account: error saving the new account: error executing the insert query: database is locked"

2023-10-19 21:52:07

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Makes you wonder how many other such inconsistencies there are across the most popular clients.

2023-10-19 21:42:39

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A lack of standardization across a given type of client causing wildly different implementations of a given feature in one client to be unable to be loaded in another client. This leads to the loss of interoperability and ultimately causes enough frustration for devs and users to abandon nostr outright at worst, or completely fracture userbase based on the client of choice.

2023-10-19 11:43:01

Holy crap... I just found out that Snort has a deck feature! This is a game-changer! It is still a bit rough around the edges and mainly needs column customization, but it is still an amazing addition. #grownostr

2023-10-18 13:15:48

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Absolutely! I wouldn't be surprised at all if other social media platforms are working on something similar.

2023-10-18 13:11:19

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It is technically only for brand new users in two countries. BUT, it will most likely expand to more coutnries first, then EXISTING users in those countries.