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Mike West

The press implying @npub1sg6…f63m is a bad guy for supporting freedom tech. https://image.nostr.build/5ca796552fd479419d1dd1104e5e4fe316d4cba1f9c18b104ae8d3eba1a469ab.jpg

2024-09-15 21:41:37

Decentralized vs. Centralized Apps
Today, your app probably works something like this:
- A user installs your app or navigates to your app’s url.
- The user signs in with a username and password, or an account likely tied to a major identity provider such as Google or Apple.
- Using that provided identity as a key, your app then creates a set of entries in your databases, likely hosted by a cloud provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- As your user begins using your app, the app’s frontend will repeatedly make calls to a backend that you’ve stood up on your cloud provider to query databases and provide data to the user.
Reading this over, you’ll realize just how much of a dependency both your app and your user take on 3rd party providers. While this has been a stable model for developers for well over a decade, user identity, user data, app data, and app infrastructure are all hosted by 3rd parties. Web5 changes this by restoring control back to end users via the following flow:
- A user installs or navigates to your app’s url.
- The user signs in to your app with an account tied to their Decentralized Identifier (DID).
- Using that provided identity as a key, your app then creates a set of entries in the user’s Decentralized Web Node (DWN), a personal data store which they host and own. DWN management can be simplified for end users through the use of a wallet, making decentralized apps accessible to average end users.
- As your user begins using your app, the app’s frontend will repeatedly make calls to the user’s DWN to query and provide data to the user. If there is app data needed, the app will query the app’s infrastructure DWNs to retrieve that information.
You’ll notice that while data ownership and location radically changed between these two models, nothing changed for the end user! That means that as a developer, all you need to do to provide the benefits of a web5 application to both yourself and your end users is to simply change where your data is stored.
#web5
source:
https://developer.tbd.website/docs/web5/apps/upgrade-to-web5/#decentralized-vs-centralized-apps

2024-09-07 16:01:08

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It’d be interesting to see a bunch of relays setup a Fedimint.

2024-09-04 01:02:48

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I’m in Canada, it works here.

2024-09-04 00:38:16

Pretty blown away by the number of responses, especially since I only have a couple hundred followers.
Have decided to recommend Primal on Android (with Wallet of Satoshi as the Lighning wallet to avoid doxing). #note1tf8…hsax

2024-09-04 00:31:33

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Yes we do have WoS in Canada. That’s what I use for zaps (w/ Damus)…it works great and is easy to use.

2024-09-03 22:12:12

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Good to know, thanks.

2024-09-03 19:20:15

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I’d love to suggest Primal but the wallet isn’t supported in Canada unfortunately.

2024-09-03 19:18:10

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I like the idea of an ecash wallet. that’s the future of custodial lightning wallets imo.

2024-09-03 19:15:30

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Thanks, I’ll check out out those options!

2024-09-03 19:08:59

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Do you use the built in wallet for sending and receiving zaps?

2024-09-03 19:06:56

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The Primal wallet is not available in Canada. I know there’s probably a way to connect an external wallet but it wasn’t obvious.

2024-09-03 19:00:19

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wow, that’s a lot. I recognize a couple names on there. Thanks!

2024-09-03 18:56:47

Looking to recruit a few noobs to Nostr. What are the recommended clients for Android (I’m a happy iOS @npub18m7…q955 user)?
#asknostr

2024-09-01 15:54:58

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I sold my Twitter handle (for half a bitcoin!) a month ago and decided going back was supporting a platform I didn’t believe in. Not only is Nostr a free and open network, but the users feel like they are part of building something.

2024-08-30 04:47:19

Would love to have Twitter (the “following” feed, not the insidious “For You” algorithm) and Nostr in one combined view.
Would have been easy to do in the earlier years of Twitter, when there was an API and a whole ecosystem of clients.
I hope there is a future where walled gardens aren’t acceptable to users and X just adopts Nostr. Problem solved.

2024-08-08 22:03:01

Back on Nostr after a long hiatus. Am seriously thinking about getting off twitter permanently…the algorithm is completely fucked.

2024-02-11 20:03:07

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good point. I like how you phrased it too.

2024-02-11 19:59:18

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I too have confidence in the Fedimint devs (and Cashu) to mitigate the custodial risks. Looking forward to the next year...am super bullish on ecash "banking".

2024-02-11 18:54:40

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Although I am a fan of the project, I don't like Fedimint being referred to as a scaling solution. it is a fully custodial solution and loses many properties that make Bitcoin what it is.

2023-01-16 22:14:21

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It’s buggy and very few features, makes Damus seem super polished. Dunno if it’s android too, I’m using test flight.

2023-01-16 22:04:11

note from Daisy client

2023-01-15 18:12:02

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Cash.app users have the same problem.

2023-01-14 23:01:53

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Definitely, different services on different protocols. Charge by the sat.

2023-01-12 15:50:31

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2023-01-12 15:21:33

Those running relays, what software are you running?

2023-01-12 02:50:09

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Yes, this is the problem with my server. I also tried cash.app and it doesn’t have CORS enabled either.

2023-01-12 02:07:13

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Thanks for the help guys it worked. Now the hard part, setting up a relay.

2023-01-11 22:08:01

bought a cool Nostr domain name. relay.green

2023-01-10 02:50:13

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2023-01-10 01:27:51

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Yes, that will work! Just make sure the path to the nostr.json file is domain.com/.well-known/nostr.json

2023-01-10 00:53:08

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3:1 (for now) but the engagement on here is fascinating and extremely positive…everyone is figuring things out together.

2023-01-09 23:05:38

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The 3 main steps are: 1. updating your profile with an address, 2. creating a Nostr.json file with your username and hex of your public key, and 3. uploading it to the proper place on your server. Let me know if you run into troubles! The guides help.

2023-01-09 22:57:41

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Thanks for checking. 🙏

2023-01-07 02:03:48

Not going to lie, I just emailed myself my Nostr private key (works for me 🤷‍♂️)…be interested in what other people’s backup method is.

2023-01-01 17:53:03

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Plan to get mine working in the next few days!

2022-12-31 01:38:50

#[0] have you considered fixing the view to portrait mode (disabling landscape) like Twitter does?

2022-12-30 18:42:29

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💯

2022-12-27 14:30:02

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That looks pretty reasonable, but why not implement an existing spec that is based on years of research and testing?

2022-12-25 19:05:24

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I sent you 100 back, thanks again for helping me…this is my first Lightning. Are you using Wallet of Satoshi? I suspect so since it knew your name and there was no fee.

2022-12-25 18:43:44

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🙏

2022-12-24 18:12:37

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Thanks and to you as well!

2022-12-22 22:22:36

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "bitcoins”

2022-12-22 20:48:10

Updated to 0.1.8

2022-12-21 14:46:49

Nostr has similar vibe as Twitter in the beginning…with #[0] so active, I suspect he agrees.

2022-12-20 23:26:26

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Damus on iOS and astral.ninja on the web